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作者：Stern, I.; Deng, X.; Chen, G.; Gao, H.
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作者：Ryu, Wonsang; McCann, Brian T.; Wan, William P.
作者单位：Yonsei University; Vanderbilt University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Research Summary: We examine how learning-by-doing (LBD) rates in manufacturing, the extent to which performance depends on own production experience, are associated with firms' diversification decisions. We argue that the LBD rates of industries affect the characteristics of not only the first-order knowledge that firms generate via operating a particular process but also the second-order knowledge that firms develop about the learning process itself. We maintain that first-order knowledge ge...
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作者：Kumar, Pankaj; Liu, Xiaojin; Zaheer, Akbar
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Virginia Commonwealth University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research Summary Extant empirical work partitioning the variance in firm (business segment) profitability has identified industry, corporate parent, business segment, and time as key sources. However, this variance decomposition research stream has treated firms as atomistic, autonomous entities. We employ a fast-unfolding community-detection algorithm to detect firms' network memberships and use the Shapley Value method to isolate the effect of the firm's alliance network, in addition to indu...
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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：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：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：Lo, Desmond (Ho-Fu); Zanarone, Giorgio; Ghosh, Mrinal
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Washington University (WUSTL); University of Arizona
摘要：Research Summary Buyer-supplier collaborations are plagued by multiple frictions-haggling, non-contractible adaptation, and resource appropriation. This article examines how contracts govern relationship-specific investment in the face of these frictions. In our model, investment increases the value the supplier creates for the buyer ex post by adapting a component to her needs. At the same time, specific investment exposes the supplier to haggling, while providing him with knowledge needed to...
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作者：Soubliere, Jean-Francois; Lockwood, Christi
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Virginia
摘要：Research Summary We theorize the strategies that entrepreneurial actors employ to instill their endeavors with culturally resonant meanings and rally the support of key audiences (investors, analysts, or customers). In extant cultural entrepreneurship research, endeavors are assumed to achieve resonance and gain support when actors deploy the culture they share with their targeted audiences. But what if actors and audiences hold cultural repertoires that poorly overlap? We consider actors' eff...
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作者：Gupta, Abhinav; Wowak, Adam J.; Boeker, Warren
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Research Summary Scholars have long recognized that interlocking directors act as conduits (or pipes) in the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices. Yet, this research generally depicts interlocks as homogenous, overlooking the possibility that directors differ in their beliefs about a given practice. Our study explores this idea in the context of the spread of two practices-lone-insider board structures and CEO-chair separation-across S&P 500 firms from 1997 to 2016. We theoriz...
