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作者：Recendes, Tessa; Aime, Federico; Hill, Aaron D.; Petrenko, Oleg, V
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Research Summary This study builds on insights from the upper echelons tradition in strategy to examine the effects of chief executive officer (CEO) Machiavellianism on relevant firm costs. While Machiavellianism has been usually construed as a purely negative trait, we argue that the pragmatic focus on the outcomes of exchanges and psychological obsession with winning in transactions that Machiavellian CEOs infuse in their organizations can have important effects on firm cost, a fundamental b...
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作者：Kim, Heeyon; Kim, Bo Kyung
作者单位：Cornell University; Yonsei University
摘要：Research summary This article examines how proximity to high-status neighbors enables lower-status firms to engage in aspirational pricing. While prior studies have focused on associations based on bilateral agreements, we argue that mere spatial proximity to other high-status firms creates perceived associations, which positively affects the focal firm's aspirational pricing. Furthermore, middle-status firms are most likely to engage in aspirational pricing because they are sufficiently simil...
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作者：Ma, Shenghui; Kor, Yasemin Y.; Seidl, David
作者单位：Fudan University; University of Cambridge; University of Zurich
摘要：Research summary The role structure of a top management team (TMT)-the roles of TMT members and the relationships among those roles-has important implications for how TMT members work together as a group in directing an organization and shaping its strategy. Although the importance of TMT role structure has long been noted, it has received scant attention until recently when upper-echelons scholars started examining its formation and influence. To stimulate a concerted effort in studying TMT r...
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作者：Chen, Liang; Zhang, Pengxiang; Li, Sali; Turner, Scott F.
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Peking University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Research Summary Strategy research advises firms to capture generative value by continually introducing generational improvements on their existing products. This article considers a potential dark side of such strategy. We argue that generational innovation can elicit a negative near-term response from customers, as it distorts their ingrained behavioral patterns and imposes learning costs. Further, we propose that this negative effect of generational innovation will diminish when the product...
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作者：Dickler, Teresa A.; Folta, Timothy B.; Giarratana, Marco S.; Santalo, Juan
作者单位：IE University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Research Summary Whether diversified firms have advantages over their single-business counterparts is the focus of much research in strategic management. Indeed, there is sparse evidence that corporate advantage exists, on average. We explore one potential driver of corporate advantage-that multi-business firms have more flexibility than single-business firms to cope with uncertainty, because they can internally redeploy resources across businesses. Using Compustat data, we show that uncertain...
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作者：Cancellieri, Giulia; Cattani, Gino; Ferriani, Simone
作者单位：Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; University of Bologna; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：Research Summary A major challenge that organizations face in cultural industries in dealing with cherished traditions is how to best mediate between adherence to tradition and pursuit of innovation, how to accommodate renewal without stifling tradition. We address this conundrum by integrating ideas from consumer-oriented psychological research on evaluative judgments and design-oriented innovation research. We show that firms can improve customers' perceptions of value by offering robust int...
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作者：Uribe, Jose; Carnahan, Seth; Meluso, John; Austin-Breneman, Jesse
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Washington University (WUSTL); University of Vermont; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Research Summary Organizations rely on subjective evaluations to reward employees for team-based performance. However, it is unclear how supervisors determine individuals' contributions to collective output. We theorize that supervisors rely on the covariance between employees' presence and their teams' productivity. If teams are more productive when an employee is present, the supervisor may infer a greater contribution from the employee. Using data from a manufacturing firm, we find that cov...
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作者：Chari, Mukund; Steensma, H. Kevin; Connaughton, Charles; Heidl, Ralph
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tulane University; University of Oregon
摘要：Research summary Patent assertion entities (PAEs) are intermediaries that acquire patents from inventors and license them to firms that use the intellectual property to develop products. We consider how PAE intermediation influences inventor behavior by reducing the costs to monetize their inventions. Using a proprietary dataset that tracks PAE lawsuits, we find that, as PAE intermediation for a given class of technologies increases, larger numbers of focused inventors (i.e., small firms, univ...
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作者：Allen, W. David; Schepker, Donald J.; Chadwick, Clint
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Kansas
摘要：Research Summary Strategic human capital scholars suggest that firms' human capital rents are greater when labor market frictions are more prevalent. Taking this argument further, we suggest that when frictions for one type of human capital decrease, firms are motivated to place greater emphasis on human capital that is interdependent in production where frictions are unchanged. Empirically, we exploit an exogenous institutional change in the National Football League to demonstrate that coachi...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Ploog, Joe N.
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Research Summary Freemium products require widespread diffusion for their success. One way to do this is by incorporating social features (e.g., multiplayer functionality, virtual collaboration, ridesharing), which can generate network effects and result in a product becoming a superstar. However, social features can be a double-edged sword: When demand potential for freemium products is large, social features can significantly boost a product's appeal resulting in more adoption, more usage, a...
