-
作者：Zott, Christoph; Amit, Raphael
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：W e focus on the design of an organization's set of boundary-spanning transactions-business model design-and ask how business model design affects the performance of entrepreneurial firms. By extending and integrating theoretical perspectives that inform the study of boundary - spanning organization design, we propose hypotheses about the impact of efficiency-centered and novelty-centered business model design on the performance of entrepreneurial firms. To test these hypotheses, we developed ...
-
作者：Gupta, Anil K.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Taylor, M. Susan
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this introductory article for the Special Issue on Innovation At and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis, we review major streams of extant research on innovation to establish a clear role for multilevel theory and research within this domain. We then examine and illustrate two fundamental and complementary approaches for investigating multilevel linkages-bottom-up emergent processes and top-down processes. In a brief commentary on each paper in the special issue, we overview the conceptual ...
-
作者：Somaya, Deepak; Williamson, Ian O.; Zhang, Xiaomeng
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University
摘要：Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV), this paper examines how the combination or bundling of resources influences firm-patenting performance. We hypothesize that firm-patenting output depends not only on research and development (R&D) resources, but also on the patent law expertise combined with R&D inside the firm. We predict that the specialization of this in-house legal resource to R&D enables firms to identify patentable inventions more effectively and to convert them into patents. We ...
-
作者：Augier, Mie; Prietula, Michael
作者单位：Stanford University; Emory University
摘要：Richard Cyert and James March's (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (ABTOF) is one of the most influential works in organization science. An important element of that work was a computational model of a duopoly, which was arguably the first computational model that instantiated organizational constructs within a substantial theoretical framework. We suggest that the academic environment within which this theory and model grew was instrumental in its emergence. Furthermore, an examination of...
-
作者：Jacobides, Michael G.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This paper examines how Greece nearly went to war with Turkey in 1996 over the uninhabited islets of Imia, to the detriment of the Greek decision makers involved. This escalation was driven by fragmented, piecemeal reactions resulting from the organizational structure of the Greek administration, which shaped identities, defined repertoires of action, sustained routines, and filtered and interpreted information. The division of labor inevitably imposed local responses that were not well calibr...
-
作者：Winter, Sidney G.; Cattani, Gino; Dorsch, Alex
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; New York University
摘要：This study presents a new model of search on a rugged landscape, which employs modeling techniques from fractal geometry rather than the now-familiar NK-modeling technique. In our simulations, firms search locally in a two-dimensional fitness landscape, choosing moves in a way that responds both to local payoff considerations and to a more global sense of opportunity represented by a firm-specific preferred direction. The latter concept provides a simple device for introducing cognitive or mot...
-
作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：T his paper considers how the information enabled by information technology (IT) is implicated in organizational action. It begins by proposing that the relationship between technology appropriations and an organization's informal advice networks is one useful way to understand how the information that is created, modified, transmitted, and stored through the use of IT can lead to organizational change. I then present the findings of an ethnographic study of the implementation and use of a new...
-
作者：Briscoe, Forrest
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：T his paper develops a model of how organizations influence the temporal flexibility of professional service workers. The model starts by identifying a key source of temporal inflexibility for these workers: an inability to hand clients off among one other. Hand-offs are impeded by high levels of client-to-worker specificity, stemming from three common characteristics of professional service work. The organizational processes that reduce that specificity, and therefore facilitate hand-offs, fu...
-
作者：Tallman, Stephen; Phene, Anupama
作者单位：University of Richmond; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：T his paper examines knowledge flows within and across geographic boundaries of clusters and nations in the biotechnology industry. We hypothesize that these flows are characterized by various factors relating to the knowledge itself and by firm innovativeness and the presence of prior knowledge flows at the firm level. Surprisingly, our findings suggest that geographic proximity does not matter in some instances, while in others it has a decidedly nonlinear effect opposite to that hypothesize...
-
作者：Tschang, F. Ted
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：This paper investigates the forces that influence creativity in the video games industry. We adopt a qualitative approach to guide the development of grounded theory across multiple levels of analysis, including the industry (consisting of multiple actors), organizational, and individual creator levels. Our Study shows that business and production interests currently drive the rationalization of video game production. There is a maturing trend, with product designs becoming well established as...
