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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：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...
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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：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：Gatignon, Aline
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research Summary This paper builds theoretical arguments and shows empirical evidence of the direct benefits and indirect costs of corporate volunteering in developing countries. Spanning corporate and humanitarian sectors to work in challenging environments should activate motivational and learning benefits for participating employees. However, results from a field study of a 10-year partnership between logistics provider TNT and the United Nations World Food Program show that such boundary-s...
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作者：Taeuscher, Karl; Zhao, Eric Yanfei; Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Alberta
摘要：Research Summary Cultural entrepreneurship theory suggests that entrepreneurial narratives need to be optimally distinctive-neither portraying an offering as too similar to nor too distinctive from the conventions of its product category-for attracting superior demand. Building on and extending this literature, we propose that the benefits and downsides of a distinctive narrative fundamentally depend on a category's distinctiveness vis-a-vis alternative categories because distinctive categorie...
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作者：Raffiee, Joseph; Fehder, Daniel; Teodoridis, Florenta
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Research Summary We introduce a new database which provides an unprecedented window into the off-the-job lives and interests of public firm top executives as reflected by their personal income allocation. We construct this database by matching household credit card spending data with the population of executives in Execucomp. To overcome the significant computational challenges associated with matching these data, we build on the statistical record-linking literature in a way that allows us to...
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作者：De Stefano, Federica; Bidwell, Matthew; Camuffo, Arnaldo
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of Pennsylvania; Bocconi University
摘要：Research Summary We investigate the relationship between value creation and value capture among frontline managers. Using longitudinal data from a restaurant chain, we find that those managers who persistently create more value for the firm capture just 0.5% of that extra value through their pay. We explore the reasons for this limited managerial value capture using an abductive approach. We find some evidence that value capture may be limited by lack of alternative employment opportunities. M...
