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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:Chang, Sea-Jin; Matsumoto, Yoichi
作者单位:National University of Singapore; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Keio University
摘要:This study explores how firms decide in which businesses to further invest and from which businesses to withdraw resources by examining the detailed product portfolios of firms in the global semiconductor industry. Results show that resource redeployment within incumbent businesses is more prevalent than via new entry or complete exit, since the former is more flexible and easily reversible than the latter. This study further finds that, while underutilized resources may drive resource redeplo...
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作者:Sharma, Siddharth; Chung, Wilbur
作者单位:Indian School of Business (ISB); University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要:Research Summary While agglomeration economies can enhance collocated firms' performance, firms' gains will be heterogeneous. Gains will be driven not only by firms' own traits, but also by their neighboring firms' traits. We expect a focal firm gains more from neighbors that are larger, more proximate geographically, and more related in economic activity. We leverage a quasi-experiment that features micro-geographic, establishment-level data: the exit of the HHGregg electronics retailer in ou...
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作者:Runge, Steffen; Schwens, Christian; Schulz, Matthias
作者单位:University of Cologne; University of Wuppertal
摘要:Research Summary We examine how technological, geographical, and product market overlaps between a firm and its alliance partner influence the firm's invention performance by shaping the learning and competitive tension in an R&D alliance. Drawing on research on learning in alliances and competitive dynamics, we argue that the firm's invention performance is influenced positively by technological and geographical overlaps and negatively by product market overlap. We further argue that product ...
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作者:Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi; Nakamura, Azusa
作者单位:Waseda University; Bocconi University
摘要:Research summary We examine how corporate innovators adapt their intraorganizational networks when firms introduce performance-based incentive plans that center on the short-term achievement of individuals' measurable outputs. We postulate that such plans prompt individuals to revise goals and reconfigure their networks accordingly. Using the co-patenting data, we analyzed cases of this incentive redesign by Japanese electronics firms in the 1990s. We found that the redesign engendered the eme...
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作者:Mahieu, Jeroen; Melillo, Francesca; Thompson, Peter
作者单位:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; SKEMA Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要:Research Summary Previous literature has documented a large short-term earnings gap for entrepreneurs that return to the wage sector. Using matched employer-employee data from the Belgian Labor Market & Social Protection Database, we document how this initial gap is remarkably persistent. Former entrepreneurs earn 27% less than propensity-scored matched controls 5 years after returning to wage work, which is almost unchanged from the short-term earnings drop. About 60% of this gap results from...
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作者:Farjoun, Moshe; Fiss, Peer C.
作者单位:York University - Canada; University of Southern California
摘要:Research Summary While the established, coherence view of internal fit provides a compact representation of firms and strategy, it also discounts the strategic benefits of tensions and contradictions, and downplays strategy creation and change. Here, we develop a novel dialectical alternative to fit-based models of strategy. Within our model, contradictions and tensions serve as a key engine for strategic renewal and transformation. If carefully harnessed through what we call disciplined incoh...