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作者：Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Scientific progress is driven by innovation-which serves to produce a diversity of ideas-and imitation through a social network-which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this process, in which the agents in the population are heterogeneous in their abilities to innovate and imitate. The model incorporates three primary forces: the discovery of new ideas, the observation and adoption of these ideas, and the endogenous development of net...
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作者：Howard-Grenville, Jennifer A.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：This paper considers how issue sellers advance new issues within an organization over time, and how they gain competence at doing so. Using ethnographic, archival, and interview data spanning a six-year period, it describes the moves made by members of a high-tech manufacturer to introduce environmental considerations into the design of new manufacturing processes. A significant shift occurred in the pattern of moves used over time, and explanations for the shift are found in two accompanying ...
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作者：Madsen, Tammy L.; Walker, Gordon
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：This paper examines how two general cohorts of firms, entrants and incumbents, differ in their competitive intensity following price and entry deregulation in the trucking industry from 1980 to 1993. The results demonstrate that the competitive strength associated with entrants' experience is reduced as they grow. However, organizational size dampens the positive effect of competitive experience on the exit rate more slowly for incumbents that were large at deregulation than it does for entran...
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作者：Fleming, Lee; King, Charles, III; Juda, Adam I.
作者单位：Harvard University; Alphabet Inc.; Google Incorporated
摘要：Small-world networks have attracted much theoretical attention and are widely thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent coauthorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on innovation. Our analysis reveals the existence of regional small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using stati...
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作者：Harris, Jared; Bromiley, Philip
作者单位：University of Virginia; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Despite the many undesirable outcomes of corporate misconduct, scholars have an inadequate understanding of corporate misconduct's causes and mechanisms. We extend the behavioral theory of the firm, which traditionally assumes away the possibility of firm impropriety, to develop hypotheses predicting that top management incentive compensation and poor organizational performance relative to aspirations increase the likelihood of financial misrepresentation. Using a sample of financial restateme...
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作者：March, James G.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Scholarship is less an individual than a collective activity. The history of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm illustrates two key aspects of the collective nature of scholarship. The first aspect is the dependence of scholarship on the institutions of scholarship. For a period of about 10 years beginning around 1954, The Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Camegie Institute of Technology was an extraordinary incubator of ideas, the '' Vienna Circle '' of its time. The second asp...
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作者：Birnholtz, Jeremy P.; Cohen, Michael D.; Hoch, Susannah V.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：W e analyze organizational regeneration using case materials from a study of a children's summer camp. Each year members of various types of seasonal organizations, such as summer camps and ski areas, come together to bring these organizations back to life after many months of dormancy. Because many staff members are new and other conditions vary, the result of this regeneration process is necessarily different from the previous year's organization, but it is nonetheless recognizable to repeat...
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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Boiral, Olivier
作者单位：Laval University
摘要：process used by organizations to integrate the ISO 14001 standard has not yet been the subject of extensive research in environmental management despite the rapid development of this standard, particularly in industrial companies. The results of a case study conducted among nine ISO 14001 certified Canadian organizations showed that adopting this standard tends to lead to a ceremonial behaviour intended to superficially show that the certified organizations conformed to the standard. Although ...
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作者：Rothaermel, Frank T.; Hess, Andrew M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Following the dynamic capabilities perspective, we suggest that antecedents to innovation can be found at the individual, firm, and network levels. Thus, we challenge two assumptions common in prior research: (1) that significant variance exists at the focal level of analysis, whereas other levels of analysis are assumed to be homogeneous, and (2) that the focal level of analysis is independent from other levels of analysis. Accordingly, we advance a set of hypotheses to simultaneously assess ...
