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作者：Bresman, Henrik
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：T his paper reports on a study of external team learning activities and their performance effects. It proposes and tests a model that consists of two sets of external learning activities: those that allow a team to learn from external experienced others about its task ( vicarious learning activities) and those that allow a team to learn from external sources about its context ( contextual learning activities). Qualitative data from six teams in one pharmaceutical firm are used to develop measu...
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Tong, Tony W.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Firms often use alliances to access external resources and explore new market or technological opportunities, yet they also can face obstacles to discovering these opportunities in the first place. In this paper, we examine how firms can overcome these obstacles and form equity alliances with newly public companies to obtain valuable growth opportunities. Specifically, we build on real options theory and develop the argument that the visibility of firms having an initial public offering (IPO) ...
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作者：Khaire, Mukti
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely because of their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited financial resources. I explore the effect of two specific non financial, social resources legitimacy and status-on new venture growth. I propose that new firms can acquire legitimacy by mimicking the structures and ceremonial act...
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作者：Vaaler, Paul M.; McNamara, Gerry
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Michigan State University
摘要：A substantial body of research in management and related public policy fields concludes that recent decades saw greater dynamic competition throughout technology-intensive (TI) industries, with widespread steady increase in TI industry and business performance instability as key implications. We set this conclusion within a broader framework of purportedly increasing dynamic competition among TI industry businesses, and then test for evidence of its performance implications in a large sample o...
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作者：Paruchuri, Srikanth
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper proposes that a mechanism through which a firm's location in the interorganizational network influences the firm's internal innovation activities is modifying the amount of information. owing within the firm. Exploring a firm's internal innovation activities, I hypothesized that structural centrality of an inventor in the intrafirm coinventing network is associated with her impact on her firm's innovation activities in an inverted-U-shape relation. I further hypothesized that this r...
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作者：Miller, Kent D.; Lin, Shu-Jou
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Chang Gung University
摘要：Models of organizational learning typically assume that organizations rely upon performance feedback and that an exogenous ( uncontrollable) environment presents the problems that organizations seek to solve. By contrast, we consider how different epistemologies within organizations, or combinations of epistemologies, and the degree to which the environment is amenable to organizational control jointly affect learning over time. This study presents three different epistemologies expressed in i...
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作者：Detert, James R.; Trevino, Linda K.
作者单位：Cornell University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：In this qualitative research, we enhance understanding of leader influences on employee voice perceptions by examining which leaders influence these perceptions and why these influences occur. We conducted 89 interviews in a high-tech multinational corporation with employees at multiple levels in two manufacturing and two R&D units that differed significantly on speak up-related items on a company-wide employee survey. Systematic analysis of the interview data led us to conclude that a broad s...
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作者：Taylor, Alva
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：This paper examines the impact of internal competition that occurs when new technology challenges the technology in a firm's existing products. New-technology development projects are traditionally judged by market success-and most fail. If we examine their impact on existing-technology product development, a different interpretation arises. Drawing on the literature on the influence of social factors on interfirm search and adoption of new technologies, this study argues that similar processe...
