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作者：Volberda, Henk W.; Foss, Nicolai J.; Lyles, Marjorie A.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Copenhagen Business School; Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：The purpose of this perspective paper is to advance understanding of absorptive capacity, its underlying dimensions, its multilevel antecedents, its impact on firm performance, and the contextual factors that affect absorptive capacity. Twenty years after the Cohen and Levinthal 1990 paper, the field is characterized by a wide array of theoretical perspectives and a wealth of empirical evidence. In this paper, we first review these underlying theories and empirical studies of absorptive capaci...
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作者：Nigam, Amit; Ocasio, William
作者单位：New York University; Northwestern University
摘要：We explore attention to Clinton's health care reform proposal, ongoing debates, and its political demise to develop theory that explains how events create opportunities for cognitive realignment and transformation in institutional logics. Our case analysis illustrates how a bottom-up process of environmental sensemaking led to the emergence and adoption of a logic of managed care, which provided new organizing principles in the hospitals' organizational field. In addition to theorization, high...
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作者：Hsieh, Chihmao; Lazzarini, Sergio Giovanetti; Nickerson, Jackson A.; Laurini, Marcio
作者单位：University of Missouri System; Missouri University of Science & Technology; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：A firm often must ensure that products or services it produces match customer expectations. We define variability as any deviation in a production process yielding products or services whose attributes differ from the firm's stated target specifications. Firms pursuing products marked by low variability are more subject to maladaptation costs if production processes are not adjusted to avoid nonconformities. Furthermore, such adjustments often require idiosyncratic investments (e. g., dedicate...
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作者：Haas, Martine R.; Park, Sangchan
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; National University of Singapore
摘要：Why do scientists withhold information from colleagues, violating the professional norm of sharing? Norm violations are usually attributed to individual interests that lead scientists to reject professional norms. In contrast, we take the view that norm violations can occur when professional norms are valued but it is difficult to ascertain the appropriate course of professional conduct. This view suggests that scientists may look to cues from their professional reference groups to resolve soc...
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作者：Arend, Richard J.; Levesque, Moren
作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; University of Waterloo
摘要：We explore the question of whether the resource-based view (RBV) is a practical theory for managers. We test the ability of the RBV to provide two pieces of practical information: (1) the identification of the very few strategic assets from a large set of assets, and (2) the estimation of the functional form of how such strategic assets' critical VRIO characteristic levels relate to firm performance. We do so by modeling the tenets of the RBV and adjusting them in a simulation. We place oursel...
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作者：Turner, Scott F.; Mitchell, Will; Bettis, Richard A.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Duke University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：This study examines how competitive market conditions shape the responsiveness with which businesses release generational product innovations (GPIs) following the introduction of GPIs by either competitors or complementary firms. GPIs are substantial technical advances in the performance of products within technology regimes. Prior studies of innovation timing in the organizational strategy literature emphasize internally driven strategies of GPI. Although internally driven strategies may pred...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas; Bigelow, Lyda
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Although vertical integration choices have been found to significantly affect firm performance, there has been little empirical study of how such choices are affected by the stage of industry evolution in which firms find themselves. We empirically investigate two possible impacts of increasing modularity on a firm's vertical integration choices. First, we hypothesize that increasing modularity is associated with vertical deintegration because of the high-level standardization of components th...
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作者：Lee, Jeongsik 'Jay'
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：In this study, I examine how past performance influences the relative positions of actors in a network and how the actor-level heterogeneity in quality mediates the often-demonstrated association between brokerage and performance. On the collaboration network of U.S. biotech inventors during 1976-1995, I find that inventors with superior track records are more apt to form collaboration ties that enhance brokerage, thereby occupying positions that allow them to broker across network boundaries....
