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作者：Shermon, Anavir; Moeen, Mahka
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Research Summary Faced with demand uncertainty and heterogeneity in a nascent industry, entrants often consider how many customer segments to serve by tailoring the usage breadth of their product portfolios. Portfolio usage breadth is the extent to which products in a portfolio collectively span distinct customer segments. We suggest that when entrants have use experience in contexts that are potential users of the new product, their portfolios exhibit low usage breadth, due to demand-oriented...
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作者：Nai, Jared; Lin, Yimin; Kotha, Reddi; Vissa, Balagopal
作者单位：Singapore Management University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research summary We investigate entrepreneurial network activation-the processes by which entrepreneurs select specific contacts from their existing personal network and persuade the selected contacts to provide referrals to access targeted early-stage investors (venture capitalists or angel-investors). We differentiate between selection of entrepreneur-centric contacts versus investor-centric contacts. We also distinguish between persuasion tactics that induce contacts' cooperation through pr...
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作者：Miller, Cameron D.; Toh, Puay Khoon
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research Summary When and how does a firm generate positive returns for itself as it coordinates technological development in ecosystems via standard setting? We depart from the convention of examining a firm's disclosed standard essential patents (SEPs), to instead focus on its nondisclosed complementary components. Using data from the information and communication technology industry from 1988 to 2010, we demonstrate that a firm that discloses SEPs generates higher returns when it has more n...
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作者：Ehrig, Timo; Schmidt, Jens
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Aalto University
摘要：Research Summary We present a framework for theory-based learning and experimentation under uncertainty. Strategists' assumptions about how an envisioned future can be reached are likely incomplete and possibly wrong, for instance, if critical contingencies have been overlooked. We explain how strategists can learn from thinking about and testing necessary conditions for an envisioned future to materialize. By logically linking assumptions to consequences our framework allows drawing inference...
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作者：Tandon, Vivek; Toh, Puay Khoon
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research Summary Why do inventors facing similar feedback from the technological environment differ in their propensity to search locally or distantly? Problem-driven decision calculus tends not to sufficiently explain such heterogeneity. We instead examine the individual inventor's calculus surrounding career concern. We propose that with reduced technological opportunities in her local domains, the ensuing career concern induces her to search distantly. This response is attenuated when caree...
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作者：Liu, Xin; Zhang, Lin; Gupta, Abhinav; Zheng, Xiaoming; Wu, Changqi
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Peking University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University; Shandong University
摘要：Research Summary What affects organizational units' propensity to learn from each other? Extending the insights of upper echelons theory to the business unit level, we examine the relationship between executive narcissism and inter-unit knowledge transfer. We predict that the narcissism of executives heading business units is negatively related to a unit's receptivity to knowledge emanating from other units. We further theorize that the effect of narcissism is reduced when there is high enviro...
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作者：Shen, Xirong (Subrina); Kim, Heeyon; Li, Jizhen
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Tsinghua University
摘要：Research Summary We examine how status dynamics in heterogeneous evaluator groups affect the evaluation of a target venture where some evaluators resemble the venture team while some do not. Using data from a funding competition in China, we theorize and empirically show that the emergence of a status hierarchy among evaluator group members based on top-university affiliation leads non-top-university members to favor top-university venture teams by (a) increasing the visibility and positive va...
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作者：Shin, Shoonchul; Lee, Juyoung; Bansal, Pratima (Tima)
作者单位：Aalborg University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Research Summary The post-Enron era is marked with growing discourse of stakeholders, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet, commentators debate whether U.S. corporations have indeed moved toward a stakeholder orientation, given the difficulties in measuring such a shift. We assess this shift by examining corporate governance practices, especially the prevalence of shareholder- and stakeholder-oriented practices in chief executive officer (CEO) dismissals. Using data o...
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作者：Ng, Weiyi; Stuart, Toby E.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Research Summary Thousands of acquisitions of technology companies result in the de facto hiring of myriad individuals into new employers every year. We analyze the effects of such deals on acquired employee (AE) retention relative to a matched sample of directly hired employees (HEs) joining the same acquirers in the same year. In a dataset with all acquisitions of VC-backed companies in the previous two decades paired to over 30 million resumes, we find that acquired employees (AEs) turnover...
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作者：van Angeren, Joey; Vroom, Govert; McCann, Brian T.; Podoynitsyna, Ksenia; Langerak, Fred
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Vanderbilt University; Eindhoven University of Technology
摘要：Research Summary The optimal distinctiveness literature highlights a fundamental trade-off in product positioning within market categories: Products should be distinct to minimize competition, but similar to build legitimacy. Most recently, this research has focused on understanding sources of variance in the distinctiveness-performance relationship. We extend this literature with an examination of digital products and argue that the relationship depends on products' revenue models: We theoriz...
