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作者：Coff, RW
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：Knowledge is frequently the focus of corporate acquisitions. It often cannot be acquired in efficient factor markets due to asymmetric information and because it may be bundled in teams or networks. However, variations in quality are harder to observe for knowledge-based assets than for tangible assets. This creates information dilemmas for buyers and, accordingly, a risk of overbidding, whenever a target is in a knowledge-intensive industry. This study found that most buyers took steps to mit...
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作者：Argyres, NS
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：This paper explores the economic processes through which information technology can facilitate coordination within and between firms. The paper presents and analyzes a case study of the B-2 Stealth bomber, an aircraft that was designed by four firms almost entirely by computer. The key information systems used in the project were (1) a common-access database to manage part designs and (2) an advanced system to perform structural analysis. These systems played a crucial role in enabling the fou...
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作者：Coff, RW
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：What if rent from a competitive advantage is appropriated so it. cannot be observed in performance measures? The resource-based view was not formulated to examine who will get the rent. Yet, this essay argues that the factors leading to a resource-based advantage also predict who will appropriate rent. Knowledge-based assets are promising because firm-specificity, social complexity, and causal ambiguity make them hard to imitate. However, the roles of internal stakeholders may grant them a gre...
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作者：Hirsch, PM; Levin, DZ
作者单位：Northwestern University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：The rise and fall of organizational effectiveness, an umbrella construct once at the forefront of organizational theory, is traced through four life-cycle stages: emerging excitement, the validity challenge, tidying up with typologies, and construct collapse. Although the study of effectiveness has declined, research on its component elements continues to thrive. Using the effectiveness story as an exemplar, we develop a more general model of this process for all umbrella constructs, defined h...
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作者：Elsbach, KD; Barr, PS
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This paper begins to answer the call to broaden current theories of individual decision-making by including in them the effects of human mood. Grounding our arguments in psychological literature on the effects of mood on information processing, motivation, and decision heuristics, we develop hypotheses about how mood can significantly affect individuals' use of structured decision protocols. In support of our hypotheses, results from an experimental study of complex decision-making suggest tha...
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作者：Shenkar, O; Li, JT
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Tel Aviv University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：By taking a learning approach to international cooperative ventures, this study introduces absorptive capacity as a principle governing the relationship between knowledge possession and knowledge search among prospective partners. Two alternative hypotheses are juxtaposed: The first is that firms will seek additional knowledge in the same area in which they already have a knowledge base; the second is that firms will seek knowledge in a complementary area. Data from 90 partner-seeking firms in...
