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作者：Pettit, Krista L.; Crossan, Mary M.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Research summary In this qualitative study of strategic renewal at a North American news organization we reveal that the treatment of occupational members as resources in strategy literature is necessary, but insufficient. Their activities are critical for organizational survival and competition but also the work needed to maintain their occupational identity. Furthermore, the prevailing research evidence that occupational members impede strategic renewal is incomplete. Our study challenges th...
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作者：Parker-Lue, Sara; Lieberman, Marvin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Research Summary Even when diversification is beneficial, entry into a new business can negatively affect the performance of the firm's existing business(es). We examine transplant centers that diversified from kidney transplants into liver transplants, focusing on how patient age can affect the costs associated with diversification. We find that diversification into liver transplants resulted in worsened quality performance in kidney transplants for younger patients, whose cases were less lik...
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作者：Aggarwal, Vikas A.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research summary The network resources a firm can access through its strategic alliances are critical precursors to innovation: They provide the information and know-how needed to generate new knowledge. Yet prior literature has not directly considered the congestion of network resources stemming from constraints on their capacity to be applied without loss of value across multiple settings. I examine the degree to which this form of resource congestion influences the innovation benefits a foc...
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作者：Keum, Dongil D.
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Research Summary This study characterizes and tests interdependencies in corporate activities used to adjust resources and implement change. Because each activity contributes only a partial result and depends on others to complete an intended change, constraining one can create a bottleneck that traps multiple other activities. For my empirical analysis, I leverage the staggered adoptions of employment protection laws intended to constrain one specific adjustment to one specific resource: dism...
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作者：Wiersema, Margarethe; Ahn, Albert; Zhang, Yu
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Hong Kong Baptist University; China Europe International Business School
摘要：Research Summary Activist hedge funds are the new breed of corporate raiders, yet we know little about how the management and board of target firms respond to activist investors. Using a behavioral perspective, we propose that an activist's reputation for being confrontational conveys information to the target company as to what they are likely to encounter in an activist campaign. To avoid the potential adverse consequences of engaging in such a contest, we propose and find that target compan...
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作者：Mathias, Blake D.; Huyghe, Annelore; Williams, David W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of London; City St Georges, University of London; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Research Summary Oppositional categories emerge in direct ideological opposition to incumbent mass producers. In doing so, these oppositional categories, especially craft-based ones, emphasize their size (small), ownership (independence), and production methods (traditional) as important identity codes-critical for maintaining their distinctiveness from the incumbent category. However, we lack theoretical insights into how oppositional category members respond as (former) members defect by joi...
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作者：Pillai, Sandeep D.; Goldfarb, Brent; Kirsch, David A.
作者单位：Bocconi University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research Summary We explore the effectiveness of economic experimentation as a learning mechanism through a historical exploration of the early automobile industry. We focus on a particular subset of economic experiments, called strategic pivots, that requires irreversible firm commitments. Our quantitative analysis suggests that strategic pivoting was associated with success. We then use historical methods to understand whether this association is reasonably interpreted as a causal link. We i...
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作者：Parker, Owen; Mui, Rachel; Titus, Varkey, Jr.
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Universite de Rennes; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：Research Summary Substantial evidence indicates that leaders are perceived through a lens of gender bias, but what mitigates such bias remains underexplored. Examining men and women in creative, project-based leadership roles, we integrate insights from role congruity and gender bias literatures to predict how project unconventionality and leader gender affect external perceptions of project quality. We argue that prejudice against female leaders is strongest for conventional projects due to t...
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作者：Raveendran, Marlo
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：Research Summary This article develops theory on how an organization's structure affects future reorganizations. I highlight that a firm's structure shapes not only the locus of decision-making power (i.e., centralization and decentralization) but also the employees' interaction structure. I develop microlevel theory that connects the firm's structure to the interactions among its employees-for instance, its influence on the time employees spend adjusting their behavior after a reorganization....
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作者：Lamberg, Juha-Antti; Peltoniemi, Mirva
作者单位：University of Jyvaskyla
摘要：Research Summary We explore the qualitative differences in entries and exits over time. Using qualitative and quantitative data on 96 firms over 200 years, we study industry evolution from the perspective of individual decision-making situations. Our historical and statistical analyses reveal the vital role of technology investments in determining firm outcomes, and the technological, institutional and governance dynamics that lead firms to invest or to abstain. Our main theoretical and method...
