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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：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：Ren, Charlotte R.; Mulotte, Louis; Dussauge, Pierre; Anand, Jaideep
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Research Summary We examine how the performance of a firm's prior alliances influences its propensity to persist with the alliance mode or switch to independent operations in the context of new product introductions (NPIs). Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF), we argue that a firm's alliance performance has a U-shaped effect on its likelihood of undertaking the subsequent NPI independently and that competitive intensity strengthens this U-shaped relationship. We also predict th...
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作者：Bednar, Michael K.; Westphal, James D.; McDonald, Michael L.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Research Summary This study examines how incumbent director reactions to media coverage of the #MeToo movement have impacted the evaluation of prospective corporate directors. We argue that heightened intergroup anxiety related to male-female interactions leads incumbents to seize on social attributes that bolster category-based trust in the reliability of prospective directors' interpersonal behavior. We predict that in response to #MeToo coverage, incumbents evaluate board candidates more po...
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作者：Liu, Chang; Li, Dan; Eden, Lorraine; Lyles, Marjorie A.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Research Summary This article examines whether and under what conditions multinational enterprises (MNEs) are likely to divest a subsidiary exposed to host-country terrorist attacks. Drawing on construal level theory from social psychology, we propose that the association between subsidiaries' exposure to host-country terrorist attacks and MNEs' likelihood of divesting these subsidiaries depends on their executives' social distance from the event host country. Based on a sample of Fortune US 1...
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作者：Kim, J. Daniel
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research Summary This study examines the impact of startup acquisition on the acquired employees' propensity for entrepreneurship. As a new owner, the acquirer may not prioritize acquired employees' ideas to be commercialized internally, thereby increasing the odds that they are pursued externally. Leveraging employee-employer matched data from U.S. Census on high-tech startup acquisitions and their workforce in 1990-2011, I find that startup acquisitions substantially increase the rate of emp...
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作者：Sen, Prothit; Puranam, Phanish
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research Summary We show that the existing alliance portfolio of a firm can impede the adoption of a new business practice. We analyze the private equity industry which features alliances in the form of deal syndication and has recently seen the rise of a novel investment practice: add-on deals. Using algorithm-supported induction, we first document robust empirical patterns using machine learning techniques, and then test the theory we construct to explain these patterns using standard econom...
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作者：Mayer, Kyle J.; Xing, Zhe (Adele); Mondal, Pablo
作者单位：University of Southern California; Santa Clara University
摘要：Research Summary We examine how organizations govern interfirm transactions that involve innovative tasks. Designing contracts that foster innovation is challenging and becomes more complex when exchange hazards are present. We draw on regulatory focus theory to examine the effects of promotion and prevention effects in contract framing contracts to address how firms should design their contracts to balance the need for promoting innovation and protecting against opportunistic behavior. Using ...
