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作者：Vanneste, Bart S.; Puranam, Phanish
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Organizations interacting repeatedly on similar transactions may learn from prior experiences, allowing contracts to be specified in greater detail. In this study, we analyze the conditions under which this learning effect is most likely to manifest itself. We do this by focusing on different parts of a contract as well as differences across transacting parties. Using a survey of information technology procurement contracts from 788 Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprises, we show that the l...
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作者：Nam, Inwoo; Gruca, Thomas S.; Tracy, Roger
作者单位：Chung Ang University; University of Iowa; University of Iowa
摘要：The supply side of many professional service markets consists of two different pools of providers: generalists and specialists. Specialists usually gain access to new clients through referrals from generalists. To ensure a continuing stream of engagements, specialists often form referral alliances with multiple generalists. Engaging the right generalist partners and allocating resources to the resulting referral relationships are among the most important challenges facing these specialist firm...
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作者：Vaara, Eero; Monin, Philippe
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school; emlyon business school
摘要：This paper challenges the predominant view that legitimation is merely a specific phase in merger or acquisition processes. We argue that a better understanding of postmerger organizational dynamics calls for conceptualization of discursive legitimation as an inherent part of unfolding merger processes. In particular, we focus on the recursive relationship between legitimation and organizational action. We have two objectives: to outline a theoretical model that helps one to understand the dyn...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Kukawa, Jennifer
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Benner, Mary J.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A large body of research has explored the factors that impede established firms' responses to radical technological changes. While it is widely acknowledged that managers face pressures from financial markets to choose strategies that maximize shareholder value, little work in the technological change literature has considered the possible influences of public equity markets and the securities analysts who mediate them on incumbent firms challenged with technological change. In this paper, I b...
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作者：O'Leary, Michael Boyer; Mortensen, Mark
作者单位：Georgetown University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Research regarding geographically dispersed teams (GDTs) is increasingly common and has yielded many insights regarding the effects of spatio-temporal and socio-demographic factors on GDT functioning and performance. Largely missing, however, is research on the effects of the basic geographic configuration of GDTs. In this study, we explore the impact of GDT configuration (i.e., the relative number of team members at different sites, independent of the characteristics of those members or the s...
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作者：Dushnitsky, Gary
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur's decision to pursue either disclosure-where investors inspect the invention-or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)-where an invention's value is inferred from the entrepreneur's willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention's success. Using a parsimonious model, we highlight the role of optimism and demonstrate that it only affe...
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作者：Kumar, M. V. Shyam
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：I examine why there are differences in wealth gains between firms when they announce a joint venture (JV). Building on transaction cost economics and the resource-based view, I argue that, because JVs often involve incomplete contracts, differences in wealth gains arise due to resource appropriation and private benefits. As a result, two factors become important in understanding whether a firm earns higher/lower wealth gains than its partner: ( 1) its potential for earning private benefits and...
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作者：Lomi, Alessandro; Larsen, Erik R.; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of Bologna
摘要：Because of preproduction delays, environmental conditions at founding cannot explain organization-building decisions taken earlier. As a consequence, environmental conditions at founding cannot explain organizational founding. Future levels of resource availability may be estimated, but not directly observed by potential entrepreneurs at the time at which they decide to enter preproduction. In this paper, we take these considerations as our starting point to build a dynamic feedback model of o...
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作者：King, Brayden G.; Felin, Teppo; Whetten, David A.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Brigham Young University
摘要：Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the organization in a broader social landscape by exam...
