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作者：Birhanu, Addis Gedefaw; Gambardella, Alfonso
作者单位：emlyon business school; Bocconi University
摘要：Research SummaryThis article examines the relationship between family ownership and patent use strategy using primary data from a patent survey, as well as patent and firm-level data from secondary sources. The findings reveal that family firms are less likely than non-family firms to license their patents and more likely to internally commercialize them. We show that the decision of family firms to license less does not depend on lower patent quality or inefficient patent use. Instead, it ari...
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作者：Hong, A-Sung
作者单位：Aarhus University; Aarhus University
摘要：Research SummaryAlthough patent races of leading technology firms have garnered significant attention in the prior literature, it remains unclear how the outcome of a patent race affects subsequent firm-level innovation. Drawing on agency theory, we propose that losing a patent race drives firms to pursue more technological innovation than winning due to managerial concerns. To investigate the mechanism, we hypothesize that the positive impact of a lost race on a firm's innovation is more pron...
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作者：Stroube, Bryan K.; Waguespack, David M.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of London; London Business School
摘要：Research SummaryExtant research finds that status characteristics such as gender are frequently related to average quality evaluations by external audiences, but little is known about whether such characteristics are also related to consensus in quality evaluations. We examine 383 million film ratings by consumers to document that female-lead movies elicit less consensus in quality evaluations than male-lead movies. In split-sample analyses, we find that male raters are more negative than fema...
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作者：Barber IV, Benjamin; Blake, Daniel J.
作者单位：IE University
摘要：Research SummaryWith increased political polarization, Americans are displaying more animus across, and affinity within, ideological identity groups. We argue this dynamic incentivizes firms to minimize ideological misalignments across their workforce by locating new establishments in areas that are ideologically proximate to their current operations. We further argue that the desire to minimize ideological distance to new establishments is stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and young ...
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作者：Chauvin, Jasmina; Poliquin, Christopher
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Georgetown University
摘要：Research SummaryWe examine to what extent and when multiunit firms internally redeploy managers between units. While theory has emphasized how changes in demand conditions affect redeployment, we argue that optimal internal resource allocation involves consideration of both demand and each unit's resource supply. We formalize this argument, showing how redeployment arises from supply-side inducements-return advantages in new over existing resource uses resulting from changes in resource supply...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Teodorovicz, Thomaz; Lazzarini, Sergio; Cabral, Sandro; McGahan, Anita M.
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Insper; University of Toronto; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Research Summary: This article examines a firm's investment in the general skills of contract workers in flexible work arrangements. It theorizes that this investment may prolong a productive firm-worker collaboration even when workers' mobility barriers are low. It also proposes that achieving such benefits requires that the firm frames the relational benefits of the investments both to managers and workers. Such a relational framing mitigates worker concerns about subsequent productivity dem...
