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作者：Qin, Marco Shaojun; Luo, Xueming; Schifeling, Todd; Wang, Yang
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Research SummaryThe growth of corporate activism on contentious social issues creates a puzzle as to why companies would risk engaging on divisive topics. Indeed, a mixed body of evidence identifies that such activism often reduces stakeholder support. We shed light on this puzzle by reversing attention to the costs of not engaging in corporate activism. Grounded in the cognitive model of stakeholder behavior, we theorize whether and when consumers will negatively respond to corporate silence ...
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作者：Hernandez, Exequiel; Lee, Jason K.; Shaver, J. Myles
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Hong Kong Baptist University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research SummaryAssessing whether network position causes firm outcomes is difficult because networks result from firms' strategic choices. To address this issue, we develop a research design that separates self-driven network change from other-driven change. Because other-driven change suppresses the focal firm's agency, outcomes resulting from it can be interpreted as causal-under verifiable assumptions. We apply this method to reassess whether alliance network position affects firm innovati...
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作者：Malik, Sumeet; Rathee, Chandrika; Alexy, Oliver; Wang, Taiyuan
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Technical University of Munich; China Europe International Business School
摘要：Research SummaryHow should novelty-driven entrepreneurs best position themselves in digital cultural markets? On platforms like YouTube, cultural entrepreneurs may bypass classic gatekeepers to reach novelty-seeking audiences through algorithms that search and recommend. However, this positive view of disintermediation ignores that novelty often needs curation by and consecration from professional audiences. We explore what these potentially conflicting dynamics imply for cultural entrepreneur...
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作者：Arts, Sam; Cassiman, Bruno; Hou, Jianan
作者单位：KU Leuven; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Xiamen University
摘要：Research SummaryWe study how unique firm technology influences M&A activity. Using a text-based network approach, we map each firm's position relative to every other firm in technology space to measure the uniqueness of its technology portfolio. Our findings indicate that firms with more unique technology portfolios become prime acquisition targets, particularly for close competitors within the same product market segments. These competitors seek to reduce competition and incorporate unique te...
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作者：Rocha, Vera; Pozzoli, Dario
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Research SummaryMost key decisions in startups are linked to their founders, but what entrepreneurs do differently as they launch successive ventures remains poorly understood. Using Danish register data, we investigate how hiring strategies change in successive entrepreneurial stints. We compare the employee sourcing practices of serial entrepreneurs running knowledge-based startups with those of novice founders in similar industries, who later transition into serial entrepreneurship. We find...
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作者：Chattopadhyay, Shinjinee; Honore, Florence; Won, Shinjae
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Research SummaryHigh-tech startups develop technologies, the market applicability of which can vary widely, enabling startups to target a range of market segments. Using a question-driven approach to contrast startups with and without academic founders, we investigate the difference in the market applicability between the two groups on a sample of 988 startups in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. Our findings reveal that academics' pursuit of basic research drives the creation of general...
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作者：Klein, Sascha P.; Spieth, Patrick; Ricart, Joan Enric; Noble, Charles H.
作者单位：Universitat Kassel; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Research SummaryPrior research indicates that negative media coverage of business activities encourages a firm to engage in strategic change, but the conditions for this strategic focus have drawn less scholarly attention. Considering a firm's business model design (BMD) with distinct sources for value creation, we argue that the effect of negative media coverage on strategic change is contingent on the BMD. An analysis of longitudinal data from 96 established firms shows that novelty-centered...
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作者：Qian, Cuili; Liu, Yilin; Takeuchi, Riki; Wu, Junfeng
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Research SummaryWe integrate social comparison theory into stakeholder research to develop a multi-stakeholder, multidimensional framework to investigate how firms' relative treatment of employees affects employee whistleblowing. We theorize that a higher compensation disparity between the CEO and employees and treatment disparity between external stakeholders and employees will decrease employees' loyalty, leading to more external whistleblowing. The effects will be amplified with increased e...
