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作者：Bikard, Michael
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research Summary Over half a century after Merton's (1963) description of simultaneous discoveries as a strategic research site for social science, they are hardly ever studied. This paper illustrates the potential of this phenomenon as a research tool. First, I describe their vast theoretical potential for strategy and innovation research and review prior works on the topic. Second, I describe a new method that generates lists of recent simultaneous discoveries in science systematically and a...
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作者：Fu, Ruchunyi; Tang, Yi; Chen, Guoli
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Hong Kong; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research Summary How will a chief sustainability officer (CSO) influence corporate social performance? Building upon the upper echelons perspective and the attention-based view, this study argues that while a CSO helps channel managerial attention to a firm's social domain, managerial attention is more likely to be directed to negative issues than to positive issues. In addition, such relationships are contingent on the focal firm's governance design and its industry culpability. Analysis of a...
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作者：Lawrence, Megan
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：Research Summary: Replication of practices is an important value-creating strategy for multi-unit firms, yet they often struggle to share knowledge internally across locations. Drawing on the replication and learning literatures and using data from aFortune100 retail chain that implemented a new restocking practice in 280 stores, I examine whether and how templates influence unit learning when replicating new practices. Stores were divided into districts, each with one randomly chosen template...
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作者：Chahine, Salim; Zhang, Yan (Anthea)
作者单位：American University of Beirut; Rice University
摘要：Research Summary With data on 1,156 venture capitalist (VC)-backed U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs), we find that the initial level of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) human capital (HC) when a firm receives its first VC investment is negatively related to the likelihood of changing CEO before IPO. The distance between a firm and its lead VC has a positive effect on the likelihood and this effect is stronger when the initial CEO HC is lower. These results suggest that as a larger distance amo...
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作者：Belderbos, Rene; Tong, Tony W.; Wu, Shubin
作者单位：KU Leuven; Maastricht University; Maastricht University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Liverpool
摘要：Research Summary Research on foreign market entry has rarely considered that multinational firms' new entries may be affected by the configuration of their existing affiliates. We argue that in making entry decisions, firms take into account how an entry into a new location helps increase the operational flexibility of their affiliate portfolios due to options to switch operations across affiliates in case of diverging labor cost developments across host countries. We juxtapose this real optio...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas; Bercovitz, Janet; Zanarone, Giorgio
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Research summary A key strategic decision for many firms is the scope of their relationships with partners. Existing theories of relationship scope are limited in that they disregard the facts that: (a) most firms transact within networks of multiple partners, and (b) these partnerships often involve two-sided moral hazard. We develop a theory of partnership scope in interfirm networks that addresses these deficiencies. We show how, by broadening the scope of business it conducts with its part...
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作者：Olson, Daniel M.; Waguespack, David M.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research summary We explore how information intermediaries preserve relationships with firms they cover and differentiate from competitors while also maintaining legitimacy with their audiences. We find that intermediaries evaluating movies and video games delay disclosing more negative reviews of heavily marketed products so that they do not coincide with the major product marketing push. We also find that media organizations artificially differentiate themselves from their competitors. We de...
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作者：Smulowitz, Stephen J.; Rousseau, Horacio E.; Bromiley, Philip
作者单位：International Institute for Management Development (IMD); State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Research Summary Combining insights from the behavioral theory of the firm with sociological research on local embeddedness, we propose that community-oriented firms respond differently to performance relative to aspirations than noncommunity-oriented firms. Community-oriented firms develop long-term relations with local constituents and emphasize community goals. This orientation should buffer them from the risk-inducing effects of falling below financial aspirations, and encourage them to pu...
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作者：Dutt, Nilanjana; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Toronto; Duke University
摘要：Research Summary We consider how different problem sources-proximate versus remote-relate to heterogeneity in search breadth. While studies of search have established the importance of search breadth, and argued that problems trigger search, they have focused on a single problem source instigating search. We extend prior research by considering how search breadth differs in the presence of proximate and remote problem sources. Because of differences in familiarity with each type of problem, an...
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作者：Chondrakis, George; Sako, Mari
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); University of Oxford
摘要：Research summary Buyer firms respond to supplier employee mobility by reshuffling work among suppliers. However, the extant literature has not considered plural-sourcing firms which can bring work back in-house. In this paper, we develop a governance framework in which buyers engage in a comparative assessment of the costs associated with different sourcing modes following supplier employee mobility. Due to the imperfect transferability of social capital and associated uncertainty, buyers face...
