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作者：Dickler, Teresa A.; Folta, Timothy B.
作者单位：IE University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Research summary This article explores one important way in which multi-business firms have advantages over single-business firms. By having flexibility to reallocate resources, such as human capital, production capacity, or equipment, between businesses in their portfolio, they may be able to efficiently expand in markets with strong opportunities and contract in less attractive markets. We provide empirical evidence confirming that compared to single-business firms in the same industry and o...
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作者：Ganco, Martin; Miller, Cameron D.; Toh, Puay Khoon
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Syracuse University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research Summary When firms diversify technologically, they often acquire human capital from competitors. Legal challenges emerge when intellectual property (IP) safeguards are involved. We examine a firm's ability to initiate IP litigation or protect against litigation (i.e., litigation ability) as an antecedent to its technological diversification. We demonstrate that an unexpected reduction in firm's litigation ability is associated with a temporary decline in its entry into new technologic...
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作者：Vinokurova, Natalya; Kapoor, Rahul
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research Summary How can inventors in large firms navigate their organizations' innovation processes to commercialize breakthrough inventions? Using historical case studies of three breakthrough inventions at Xerox-office workstations, personal computers, and laser printers, we illustrate how inventors navigated multiple evaluation criteria across different organizational units to attract resources toward inventions. These criteria stemmed from Xerox's first successful breakthrough invention, ...
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作者：Polidoro, Francisco, Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research summary Evolutionary models of technological evolution highlight the cognitive underpinning of routines that shape organizational adaptation. However, research thus far has overlooked the possibility that cognitive effects might also shape selection. This study redresses this imbalance by examining nonmarket selection, focusing for that purpose on the regulatory review of innovations. It proposes that the more knowledge about different technologies is available to regulatory agencies,...
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作者：Obloj, Tomasz; Sengul, Metin
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Boston College
摘要：Research Summary We explore the performance consequences of the simultaneous pursuit of multiple objectives in organizations. Taking advantage of a unique dataset covering both the objectives pursued and performance outcomes, we test the hypothesis that is the cornerstone of multiple objectives theory: performance on a given metric increases when it is pursued as an objective but decreases with the number of other objectives pursued simultaneously. We find overall support for this hypothesis, ...
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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：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...
