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作者：Luo, Xiaowei
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：T his research attempts to understand and test a core assumption in neoinstitutional theory, i.e., that institutional logics shape individual attitudes and preferences, by studying cross-national differences in people's attitudes toward the continuous learning model of employee training-an increasingly popular model of training. I propose that national institutional logics regarding the individual's role (empowered versus limited) can shape people's preferences for the new model of training. B...
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作者：Sidhu, Jatinder S.; Commandeur, Harry R.; Volberda, Henk W.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：In this paper, exploration and exploitation are conceptualized in terms of a nonlocal-local search continuum in three-dimensional supply, demand, and geographic space. Using cross-sectional data from a wide range of manufacturing industries, we develop and validate an operational measure of the exploration-exploitation concept. In line with theory-based arguments, our analysis suggests that the value of supply-side, demand-side, and spatial exploration and exploitation is contingent on the env...
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作者：Bell, Geoffrey G.; Zaheer, Akbar
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota Hospital; University of Minnesota Duluth; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Knowledge-which is closely linked to firm innovativeness-is accessed across organizational boundaries and geographic space via networks operating at different levels of analysis. However, we know tantalizingly little about the comparative influence of geography on knowledge flow across organizational boundaries over different types of ties, despite warnings that research needs to account for the geographic context of ties to fully understand causal relationships. Using a combination of primary...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas S.; Bercovitz, Janet; Mayer, Kyle J.
作者单位：Boston University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Southern California
摘要：An increasing volume of business activity appears to be occurring via alliances or other interfirm arrangements in which complex contracts are featured, yet there has been relatively little study of contract design in the strategy or management literatures. The economics literature on contracting has been extensive, but it has been less concerned with learning and evolution-phenomena in which strategy and organization scholars are deeply interested. In this paper, we investigate the relationsh...
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作者：Murray, Fiona; O'Mahony, Siobhan
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Organizational theorists have built a deep understanding of the conditions affecting knowledge sharing. However, for innovation to occur, knowledge must not just be shared, but also reused, recombined, and accumulated. Such accumulation is not inherent to the innovation process but can be either supported or limited by the context in which it occurs. We propose a framework arguing that three conditions shape this context: disclosure, access, and rewards. We show how these conditions operate at...
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作者：Pentland, Brian T.; Feldman, Martha S.
作者单位：Michigan State University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：T his paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of technology in use. The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and forms. The narrative network draws on concepts from structuration theory, actor network theory (ANT), a...
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作者：Baum, Joel A. C.; Dahlin, Kristina B.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：We link two influential organizational learning models-performance feedback and experiential learning-to advance hypotheses that help explain how organizations' learning from their own and others' experience is conditioned by their aspiration-performance feedback. Our focus is on learning from failure; this kind of learning is essential to organizational learning and adaptation, and a necessary complement to studies of learning from success. Our analysis of U.S. Class I freight railroads' acci...
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作者：Nadkarni, Sucheta; Narayanan, V. K.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Drexel University
摘要：We argue that the collective assumptions of firms drive their actions and practices, and create the conditions of industry velocity. In our view, cognitive construction by firms is the primary driver of industry velocity. This is in contrast to the contingency views common in the literature, which hold that industry velocity plays a role by constraining and shaping firm strategies. Specifically, we suggest that firms develop unique assumptions, social networks, and feedback mechanisms; that th...
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作者：Moore, Don A.; Oesch, John M.; Zietsma, Charlene
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Toronto; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This paper documents egocentric biases in market-entry decisions. We demonstrate self-focused explanations for entry decisions made by three groups of participants: actual entrepreneurs (founders), working professionals who considered starting their own firms but did not (nonfounders), and participants in a market-entry experiment. Potential entrants based their decision to enter primarily on evaluations of their own competence (or incompetence) and paid relatively little attention to the stre...
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作者：Park, Kyung Min
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This paper investigates drivers of convergence and divergence in strategic positioning in terms of resource-allocation decisions. The study, based on the behavioral theory of the firm, suggests two unexplored kinked-curve relationships between performance gaps and strategic convergence-divergence. First, the study suggests a negative relationship between a focal firm's performance relative to aspiration levels and strategic convergence-divergence, where the slope is steeper when performance is...
