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作者：Graebner, Melissa E.; Knott, Anne Marie; Lieberman, Marvin B.; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Washington University (WUSTL); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Summary Many advances in strategic management have resulted from the application of formal deductive methods, based on tests of specific hypotheses derived from theory. Nonetheless, numerous important research topics involve phenomena that are novel and/or causally complex and so resist basic hypothetico-deductive logic. As a result, many of the most important findings in strategy research have come from open-ended studies of relevant phenomena. The special issue of the SMJ on Questio...
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作者：Genin, Aurora; Ma, Wenting; Bhagwat, Vineet; Bernile, Gennaro
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; George Washington University; University of Miami
摘要：Research Summary: How does board experiential diversity affect corporate radical innovation? We find that the combined diversity of directors' educational, industrial, and organizational experiences spurs the quantity and quality of path-breaking patents developed at a firm. Instrumental variable analysis leveraging exogenous variation in firm access to the nonlocal supply of directors with diverse experiences indicates causality, which is corroborated by difference-in-differences tests. Firm ...
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作者：Toh, Puay Khoon; Agarwal, Shiva
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research Summary Within platform-based ecosystems, what drives platform owners' investment decision to enable third-party complements onto their platforms? Departing from the conventional focus on the complementarity value that these complements add to platform owners, we examine how uncertainty in the complementary product market drives this decision. We offer a novel perspective on third-party complements-they contain option value allowing the platform owner to defer its own entry into the m...
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作者：Decreton, Benoit; Tippmann, Esther; Nell, Phillip C.; Parker, Andrew
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; Ollscoil na Gaillimhe-University of Galway; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Copenhagen Business School; Durham University; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Research SummarySolving non-routine problems-problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution-can be an important source of value creation. When these problems occur in subsidiaries of multinational corporations, senior headquarters managers can potentially help solve them. However, whether their involvement is beneficial rests upon the assumptions that they know which knowledge is appropriate and that their involvement does ...
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作者：Gatignon, Aline; Bode, Christiane
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Imperial College London
摘要：Research Summary: We investigate firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies under India's 2013 legal mandate. We study 12,086 firms and 86,755 projects from 2014 to 2017. Using an abductive approach, we examine firms' choices of social causes, geographic locations, implementation channels, and number of projects through four theoretical lenses. Firms adopt two main CSR strategies: the first and most common has a narrow focus, while the second, pursued by few (typically leading fir...
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作者：Tandon, Vivek; Asgari, Navid; Ranganathan, Ram
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Fordham University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research Summary We examine whether acquisitions affect the divestment of firms' alliance-based relational assets. Using data from the biopharmaceutical industry and a matched case-control research design, we find that alliances are more likely to be terminated following acquisitions compared to alliances not subject to acquisitions. This higher termination likelihood is driven by acquisitions where the acquirer's alliance management capacity is stressed, and by alliances inherited from target...
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作者：Daymond, Jarryd; Knight, Eric; Rumyantseva, Maria; Maguire, Steven
作者单位：University of Sydney; Macquarie University
摘要：Research Summary While the notion of ecosystems has become prominent in scholarly and practitioner strategy literature in recent years, more can be done to bridge these two communities. In this introduction to the SMS Collection, we interrogate strategy scholarship from the perspective of ecosystem architects, who are private or public sector actors interested in nurturing and developing a given ecosystem as a whole. In doing so, we collate and discuss key articles published in the journals of...
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作者：Bothello, Joel; Ioannou, Ioannis; Porumb, Vlad-Andrei; Zengin-Karaibrahimoglu, Yasemin
作者单位：Concordia University - Canada; University of London; London Business School; University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; University of Groningen; Concordia University - Canada
摘要：Research Summary Given the growing legitimacy of corporate social responsibility (CSR), many firms engage in symbolic communication to showcase CSR without undertaking commensurate substantive actions. This CSR decoupling can create a risk of perceived greenwashing, which, in turn, may negatively affect a firm's performance. In this study, we explore an unexamined antecedent of decoupling: interfirm affiliation. Specifically, we use the structure of Business Groups (BGs) to investigate CSR dec...
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作者：Harmon, Derek; Rhee, Eunice; Cho, Yun Ha
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Seattle University
摘要：Research Summary: How do new things in nascent markets become legitimate? Existing research points to a process where legitimacy is built by making associations with already legitimate ideas from other domains. In this study, however, we investigate the Internet boom of the 1990s, a nascent setting where something new-engagement metrics used to evaluate firms-gained legitimacy amongst investors, but not by being associated with already legitimate metrics. Using a question-driven mixed-methods ...
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作者：Dahlander, Linus; Thomas, Arne; Wallin, Martin W.; Angstroem, Rebecka C.
作者单位：European School of Management & Technology; University of Amsterdam; Chalmers University of Technology; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Research Summary: Seeking causal evidence on biases in idea evaluation, we conducted a field experiment in a large multinational company with two conditions: (a) blind evaluation, in which managers received no proposer information, and (b) non-blind evaluation, in which they received the proposer's name, unit, and location. To our surprise-and in contrast to the preregistered hypotheses-we found no biases against women and proposers from different units and locations, which blinding could amel...
