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作者：Woolley, Anita Williams
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Knowledge work frequently involves both the redefinition of desired outcomes and the specification of task processes. The relative emphasis that teams place on these issues early in work can lead members to become outcome focused or process focused, with consequences for performance. This paper develops and explores a theory of how outcome focus and process focus develop in teams and the implications of each for team adaptation and performance. Outcome and process focus were both observed and ...
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作者：Benson, David; Ziedonis, Rosemarie H.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Gaining a window on new technologies is a prominent motive for corporate venture capital (CVC) investing. Recent studies suggest that information gained through CVC-related activities can improve the internal R&D productivity of established firms. This study investigates an alternative means by which information gained through CVC investing could improve firm performance-by increasing the returns to corporate investors when acquiring startups. We provide new insights based on an event study of...
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作者：Chadwick, Clint; Dabu, Adina
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：We maintain that human resources are strategically significant in at least three cases, when these resources ( 1) help create traditional Ricardian rents; ( 2) function as components of organizational capabilities that generate nontraditional Ricardian rents; and ( 3) are the source of technological and managerial innovations that produce entrepreneurial rents. Human resource management ( HRM) activities, on the other hand, assume strategic significance by supporting the three cases above thro...
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作者：Zollo, Maurizio
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：In this paper, the notion of superstitious learning is applied to the context of rare and complex strategic decisions. I argue that superstitious learning is a particularly relevant problem for these types of decisions not only because causal linkages between actions and outcomes might be poorly inferred, but also, more basically, because their performance outcomes are often very difficult to assess in objective ways. I test these arguments with a sample of U. S. bank mergers and find evidence...
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作者：Jonsson, Stefan
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Uppsala University
摘要：Why do some practices not spread? Although this is an important question for both diffusion theorists and those interested in institutional change, we know surprisingly little about the limitations on diffusion because most diffusion studies sample on successful diffusion. I address the question of why some practices fail to spread by introducing the concept of a deviance discount. A deviance discount is a systematic downgrading of the observed adoption performance of controversial practices, ...
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作者：Shipilov, Andrew V.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：This study investigates characteristics that affect the relationship between firms' positions in a network of collaborative ties with other firms and their performance. Firms located in similarly structured networks rich in structural holes may obtain different performance results depending on their ( 1) capacity to absorb heterogeneous information, ( 2) ability to protect against partner noncooperation, and ( 3) bargaining power. In this paper, I argue that firms with a wide scope of experien...
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作者：Kim, June-Young; Kim, Ji-Yub (Jay); Miner, Anne S.
作者单位：Marquette University; University of Southern California; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This paper argues that two different types of a firm's own extreme performance experiences - success and recovery - and their interactions can generate survival-enhancing learning. Although these types of experience often represent valuable sources of useful learning, several important learning challenges arise when a firm has extremely limited prior experience of the same type. Thus, we theorize that a certain threshold of a given type of experience is required before each type of experience ...
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作者：Capron, Laurence; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Duke University
摘要：The dynamic capabilities literature suggests that firms need to use both internal development and external sourcing to thrive over time, but we have a limited understanding of the conditions that best suit different sourcing choices. This study examines how constraints that arise from firms' existing stocks of capabilities and from their internal social contexts shape their choices of capability-sourcing modes and, in turn, their ability to obtain new capabilities. Thus, the research focuses o...
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作者：Eggers, J. P.; Kaplan, Sarah
作者单位：New York University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We investigate the conditions under which managerial cognition affects the timing of incumbent entry into a radical new technological market. We address this question using a longitudinal study of communications technology firms entering the fiber-optics product market. Using a hazard rate model, we investigate the relevance of cognition based on the direction of CEO attention. We find that attention toward the emerging technology and the affected industry is associated with faster entry, and ...
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作者：Agarwal, Rajshree; Helfat, Constance E.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Dartmouth College
摘要：Strategic renewal, although critical for the sustained success of organizations, has received relatively little attention as distinct from the more general phenomenon of strategic change. Like all strategic issues, strategic renewal presents both opportunities and challenges for organizations. In this article, we first define the term strategic renewal and elaborate on important characteristics of this phenomenon. We also bring to bear evidence that suggests that strategic renewal has a critic...
