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作者：Berg, Justin M.; Grant, Adam M.; Johnson, Victoria
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Scholars have identified benefits of viewing work as a calling, but little research has explored the notion that people are frequently unable to work in occupations that answer their callings. To develop propositions on how individuals experience and pursue unanswered callings, we conducted a qualitative study based on interviews with 31 employees across a variety of occupations. We distinguish between two types of unanswered callings-missed callings and additional callings-and propose that in...
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作者：Zaheer, Akbar; Hernandez, Exequiel; Banerjee, Sanjay
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：An important focus of the research on mergers and acquisitions is the conditions under which acquisitions create value for the acquiring firm's shareholders. Given that the acquisition process is plagued by serious issues of information asymmetry, which are exacerbated in the context of knowledge acquisitions, we examine whether prior alliances with potential targets reduce the information asymmetry enough to create partner-specific absorptive capacity and yield superior stock returns on acqui...
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作者：Lichtenthaler, Ulrich; Ernst, Holger; Hoegl, Martin
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：Employee attitudes with regard to the usefulness of external knowledge may influence a firm's extent of inter-organizational knowledge transactions. Prior research has focused on not-invented-here (NIH) tendencies, which refer to negative attitudes in organizations toward the acquisition of knowledge from external sources. In this research, we develop the concept of not-sold-here (NSH) tendencies, which result from protective attitudes in firms toward the external exploitation of knowledge, fo...
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作者：Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Lakhani, Karim R.
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Harvard University
摘要：We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large research and development intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. Analyzing a unique data set of 166 science challenges involving over 12,000 scientists revealed that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an...
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作者：Chung, Chris Changwha; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：Korea University; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This article examines how multiple ownership changes unfold in international equity joint venture (IEJV) evolution and how such repeated changes impact short-term performance and long-term survival. By theorizing a new concept-the trap of continual change-in the IEJV context, we challenge the adaptive viewpoint assumed in alliance dynamics research. We propose that partners sometimes respond to an initial dissatisfaction with the venture result with a dysfunctional repetition of rearranging th...
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作者：Sauer, Stephen J.; Thomas-Hunt, Melissa C.; Morris, Patrick A.
作者单位：Clarkson University; University of Virginia
摘要：In this paper we report the results of two experimental studies designed to test how demographic characteristics affect outsiders' assessments of a firm's top managers. We draw on theories of evaluation and status characteristics to examine the interactive effects of managers' racial characteristics and educational prestige on external perceptions. In the first study, we find that top executives' educational background and race affected analysts' valuation of a firm's stock. Outside analysts m...
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作者：Bidwell, Matthew; Briscoe, Forrest
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：How do workers build careers across organizations? We propose that increased worker mobility means that workers may now build their careers using interorganizational career ladders, working in certain kinds of organizations earlier in a career and in other kinds of organizations later in the career. We develop a matching framework that predicts such interorganizational moves based on how systematic changes in workers' needs and resources over the course of their careers alter the kinds of orga...
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作者：Etzion, Dror; Ferraro, Fabrizio
作者单位：McGill University; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：We study institutional entrepreneurship in an emergent field by analyzing the case of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its efforts to purposefully institutionalize the practice of sustainability reporting. We suggest that analogies affect institutionalization processes through two mechanisms. In the early stages of institutionalization, analogy operates primarily as a normative mechanism, and adoption is driven mainly by an instrumental logic. This emphasis on similarity to existing i...
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作者：Zbaracki, Mark J.; Bergen, Mark
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We analyze the microfoundations of the routine in a study of price-adjustment processes at a manufacturing firm. Existing theory says that truces balance cognitive and motivational differences across functions, but there is scant evidence on how truces work. We show both stability and change in routines. For minor price adjustments, routines incorporate truces in stable but separate market interpretations by the sales and marketing groups. Major price changes put truces at risk, as latent conf...
