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作者：Lee, Saerom (Ronnie)
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research summary There has been an ongoing debate over whether start-ups should be flat with minimal hierarchical layers. To reconcile this debate, this article distinguishes between creative and commercial success (i.e., novelty vs. profitability), and examines how these outcomes are variously influenced by a start-up's hierarchy. This study suggests that while a flatter hierarchy can improve ideation and creative success, it can result in haphazard execution and commercial failure by overwhe...
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作者：Kang, Hyo; Lee, Wyatt
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Summary Knowledge protection strategies are crucial to innovating firms facing the risk of knowledge leakage. We examine the threat of worker departure as a key mechanism through which firms choose between patents and secrecy. We exploit a 1998 California court decision that ruled out-of-state noncompetes were not enforceable in California, thereby creating a loophole limiting non-California firms in their enforcement of noncompetes against their workers. When facing a higher threat o...
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作者：Bao, Jiayi
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Research Summary This study examines how social safety nets providing paid family leave (PFL) benefits to employees influence subsequent business performance for entrepreneurial ventures. A multilevel framework guided by qualitative interviews proposes two competing mechanisms (pre-hiring recruitment gains via prospective employees and post-hiring operation losses via incumbent employees) and a firm-level contingency (venture innovation type). Leveraging the 2009-implemented New Jersey PFL pro...
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作者：Conti, Raffaele; Kacperczyk, Olenka; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University of London; London Business School; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：Research Abstract A diverse workforce has long been associated with multiple firm benefits, but this is sometimes difficult to achieve due to employer discrimination. Although multiple institutional arrangements have been put in place to ban discriminatory behavior, the effects of such regulations remain relatively unexplored, often neglecting start-ups. We propose that institutional changes aiming to outlaw employment discrimination will trigger two main effects: they will (a) depress start-u...
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作者：Pongeluppe, Leandro S.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Research summary E-commerce firms make fewer products available and charge higher delivery prices to customers inside Brazilian favelas than they do to customers immediately outside favelas, despite the absence of infrastructure impediments at the favela borders. This phenomenological study uses mixed methods to investigate firm heterogeneity in these practices. The analysis shows that some firms treat favela consumers more equitably than their competitors. These firms (i) invest in physical s...
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作者：Fieberg, C.; Lopatta, K.; Tammen, T.; Tideman, S. A.
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作者：Berchicci, Luca; Tarakci, Murat
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Research Summary The behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) proposes that firm behavior is goal-directed and that organizational aspirations are a function of prior historical aspirations, past performance, and the performance of others. Despite the centrality of aspirations in the BTOF, little is known about aspiration formation and why firms favor one aspiration type over others, that is, attention rules. Drawing on the attention-based view, we posit that attention rules are shaped by environm...
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作者：Zanella, Paola; Cillo, Paola; Verona, Gianmario
作者单位：CUNEF Universidad; Bocconi University
摘要：Research Summary How do incumbents respond to a market information regime change? We employ literatures on product portfolio strategies and capability adaptation to analyze the information regime change induced by the advent of streaming in the U.S. music industry. Our findings highlight that an information change impacts the strategy of organizations. We observe that the inclusion of streaming reveals increasing demand for novelty and variety. Finally, we identify breadth of experience as a d...
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作者：Novoselova, Olga A.
作者单位：emlyon business school
摘要：Research Summary Past research discovered multiple drivers of interorganizational connectivity; however, their relative importance remains a puzzle. This study generalizes known network antecedents to six dimensions of the interorganizational environment-time, industry, geography, organization, networks, and agents-and decomposes variability in dyadic corporate connectedness to find the dimensions' relative importance for board interlocks, executive migration, and alliances among the S&P 500 c...
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作者：Khanagha, Saeed; Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz); Paroutis, Sotirios; Oviedo, Luciano
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Cambridge; University of Warwick
摘要：Research summary How firms respond to the emergence of dominant platforms that undermine their competitiveness remains a strategic puzzle. Our longitudinal study shows how one incumbent, Cisco, responded to such a challenge by creating a new platform, Fog, without undermining the dominant platform, Cloud, where it played a complementor role. By developing a process model we reveal how a firm in a peripheral role in a platform ecosystem can reposition itself through a dynamic mix of material, s...
