-
作者：Wang, Heli; Choi, Jaepil; Li, Jiatao
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：What is the relationship between corporate philanthropy and corporate financial performance? Some scholars argue that corporate philanthropy facilitates stakeholder cooperation and helps secure access to critical resources controlled by those stakeholders, suggesting that corporate philanthropy should be positively associated with corporate financial performance. In contrast, other scholars take a negative stance, suggesting that corporate philanthropy diverts valuable corporate resources and ...
-
作者：Daft, Richard L.; Lewin, Arie Y.
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Duke University
摘要：This perspective paper addresses the issues of rigor and relevance in organizational studies in the context of idea migration and journal evolution. We argue that creeping parochialism can happen to any journal, which reflects an evolving narrowness within boundaries of academic subcommunities. Evidence suggests that ideas do migrate across academic subcommunities, although the underlying process is not well understood and the idea flow is not symmetrical. Two kinds of knowledge relevance are ...
-
作者：Khessina, Olga M.; Carroll, Glenn R.
作者单位：Cornell University; Stanford University
摘要：Little theory and research addresses the ways organizational context affects the demography of products. We examine this question here by focusing on an organization's mode of market entry. Specifically, we explore differences between firms entering a market de novo (start-up) and those entering de alio (diversification from another market). We analyze all products ever shipped in the worldwide optical disk drive (ODD) industry, 1983-1999. We find an almost paradoxical empirical pattern, where...
-
作者：Poppo, Laura; Zhou, Kevin Zheng; Ryu, Sungmin
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Hong Kong; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
摘要：Despite the widespread acceptance of trust as an informal governance institution, our understanding of its origins is nascent. Our review of the literature identified two distinct explanations: Trust emerges from either a shadow of the past (i.e., prior history) or a shadow of the future (i.e., expectations of continuity). In this paper we develop and empirically examine a third perspective: The potential interdependence of these two explanations. Our results strongly endorse this third perspe...
-
作者：Monteiro, L. Felipe; Arvidsson, Niklas; Birkinshaw, Julian
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Royal Institute of Technology
摘要：Applying a new theoretical and empirical approach to intrafirm knowledge transfers, this paper provides some initial insight to the little-researched phenomenon of why some subsidiaries are isolated from knowledge-transfer activities within the multinational corporation (MNC). Knowledge transfer is framed as a problemistic search process initiated by the recipient unit. We show that knowledge flows from units that are perceived to be highly capable to units that perceive themselves to be highl...
-
作者：Bercovitz, Janet; Feldman, Maryann
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780 faculty members, examining their backgrounds and work environments, and following their engagement with academic entrepreneurship. We find that individual adoption of the new initiative may be either substantive or symbolic. Our results suggest that...
-
作者：Chung, Chi-Nien; Luo, Xiaowei
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This study examines the interaction between change-minded human agents and environmental and organizational contingencies to understand contested change in highly institutionalized practices. We propose a theory of how individuals, including those who are structurally highly embedded, can become change agents when confronted with amplified institutional contradictions. Using the empirical example of family presence in the leadership of Taiwanese business groups, we argue that despite the struc...
-
作者：Guthrie, James P.; Datta, Deepak K.
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：Workforce downsizing through employee layoffs has become commonplace in American businesses over the last 20 years. While these initiatives are typically undertaken in the quest for improved firm performance and competitiveness, empirical research to date has been equivocal in supporting the efficacy of these initiatives. In addition, extant research has not thoroughly examined factors or conditions that may influence or moderate the performance impact of workforce downsizing. In this paper, w...
-
作者：Stahl, Guenter K.; Voigt, Andreas
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of London; London Business School
摘要：A substantive body of theory and research on the role of culture in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) suggests that cultural differences can create major obstacles to achieving integration benefits. However, the opposite view-that differences in culture between merging firms can be a source of value creation and learning-has also been advanced and empirically supported. In an attempt to reconcile these conflicting perspectives and findings, we present a model that synthesizes our current understa...
-
作者：Ton, Zeynep; Huckman, Robert S.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：We examine the impact of employee turnover on operating performance in settings that require high levels of knowledge exploitation. Using 48 months of turnover data from U.S. stores of a major retail chain, we find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with decreased performance, as measured by profit margin and customer service. The effect of turnover on performance, however, is mitigated by the nature of management at the store level. The particular aspect of management on which ...
