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作者：Shipilov, Andrew; Li, Stan X.; Bothner, Matthew S.; Truong, Nghi
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; City University of Hong Kong; European School of Management & Technology; Chulalongkorn University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research Summary: We examine how crisis conditions affect the link between structural holes and organizational performance. Since brokerage offers early access to diverse perspectives and autonomy in exchange relations, the benefits of brokerage should rise when crises erupt. However, evidence on the subject has been inconclusive, raising the question of whether crisis actually imposes a boundary condition on structural hole theory. Using longitudinal data on investment banks, and exploiting t...
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作者：Bucheli, Marcelo; Ciravegna, Luciano; Saenz, Luis Felipe
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; INCAE Business School; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Research Summary: We analyze how the evolution of the broad institutional environment influences the vertical integration strategy of a multinational corporation (MNC) leading a global value chain (GVC). We develop a history-to-theory study based on the evolution of the banana GVC between 1899 and 1991. We argue that when a MNC's bargaining power vis-a-vis the host government is strong, it will choose a governance structure that addresses contractual uncertainty. When the MNC's bargaining powe...
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作者：Lawrence, Megan; Poliquin, Christopher
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Research SummaryTheory posits hierarchy as a response to coordination challenges and emphasizes organization size and the need to transfer knowledge as the mainspring of these challenges. This connection, however, is largely based on the quantity of knowledge to be transferred rather than its characteristics. Building on the knowledge-based view, we propose that knowledge scope-the variety of knowledge across an organization's members-affects coordination costs and hierarchy expansion. Using a...
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作者：Sabel, Christopher Albert; Sasson, Amir
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; BI Norwegian Business School; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Research Summary: Multi-business firms redeploy human capital to strengthen individual business units. However, we know little about the antecedents of such redeployments and their effects on unit outcomes. Contributing to the resource redeployment and strategic human capital literatures, we test the relationships between parent-unit industry relatedness, the direction of redeployment (parent-to-unit and unit-to-parent), the type of human capital, the likelihood of redeployment, and post-redep...
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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：Kumar, Amit; Operti, Elisa
作者单位：University of Warwick; ESSEC Business School; ESSEC Business School
摘要：This study examines commission and omission errors in the evaluation of technological opportunities. Integrating structural and cognitive perspectives, we propose that inventors with more cohesive collaboration networks within the firm or geographically closer to the corporate headquarters exert greater influence on the dominant representations shaping opportunity evaluation within the firm. Thus, their inventions are more likely to be positively assessed, even if quality considerations sugges...
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作者：Melloni, Gaia; Patacconi, Andrea; Vikander, Nick
作者单位：University of Lausanne; University of East Anglia; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Research Summary: In this article, we examine under what conditions CEO activism-the practice of corporate leaders to take public stances on sociopolitical issues-can create firm value. In our model consumers care about the type of firm they buy from, but also understand that corporate leaders can make false or misleading statements to pander to valuable demographics. We show that, although the profitability of CEO activism is severely compromised by this wokewashing, under some conditions cre...
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作者：Hawk, Ashton; Lahiri, Debtanu; Pacheco-de-Almeida, Goncalo
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Research Summary: Does corporate political activity (CPA) help sustain performance? Prior literature did not address this question, only whether CPA increases profits-with mixed results over short timescales. We theorize about how political capital affects the regression-to-the-mean of profits through firm and industry persistence mechanisms. Using data on over 6000 firms from 14 democratic countries, we estimate time-varying, firm-specific performance persistence coefficients with random-coef...
