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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Dokko, Gina
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Research summary: This study examines the abandonment of organizational practices. We argue that firm choices in implementing practices affect how firms experience a practice and their subsequent likelihood of abandonment. We focus on utilization of the practice and staffing (i.e. career backgrounds of managers), as two important implementation choices that firms make. The findings demonstrate that practice utilization and staffing choices not only affect abandonment likelihood directly but al...
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作者：Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Research summary: The study explores renewal in a novel but understudied contextan era of ferment with competing technological options. It focuses on IBM's transition from market leadership in a failed path (plasma) to leadership in the emerging dominant technology (LCD) in the 1980s. Interviews and internal documents offer two primary factors explaining renewal at IBM. First, IBM Research had a hybrid structure that captured the benefits of both centralized and decentralized R&D. Second, midd...
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作者：Gallus, Jana; Frey, Bruno S.
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Zurich
摘要：Research summary: Awards are a valuable strategic resource. Motivation theory and the emerging body of empirical literature suggest that awards can have a significant effect on employee motivation and corporate performance, though not always in the intended direction. Awards can also destroy value. The organizational award literature has so far largely neglected this important issue. We develop a synthesis of the dimensions critical for successful award bestowals, and analyze under which condi...
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作者：Swift, Tim
作者单位：Saint Joseph's University
摘要：Research summary: R&D-based exploration and exploitation are necessary in order for firms to have sustainable competitive advantage. Yet, transitioning between these orthogonal types of R&D is considered profound organizational change. Building on recent research showing that compact, significant changes in R&D expenditure is an antecedent to the transition between explorative and exploitative R&D, I show that this leap between exploration and exploitation is quite hazardous. The magnitude of ...
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作者：Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Natalia; Bansal, Pratima
作者单位：Universitat de les Illes Balears; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Research summary: Prior work on the benefits of business sustainability often applies short-term causal logic and data analysis. In this article, we argue that the social and the environmental practices (SEPs) associated with business sustainability not only contribute to short-term outcomes, but also to organizational resilience, which we define as the firm's ability to sense and correct maladaptive tendencies and cope positively with unexpected situations. Because organizational resilience i...
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作者：Ma, Juan; Khanna, Tarun
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Research summary: Although opinion conformity is believed to be commonly used by corporate elites to invoke reciprocity, it is hard to study in the context of corporate boards since boards are typically black boxes. Focusing on publicly traded companies in China, where disclosure of dissent is mandated, we show that dissent is associated with a breakdown of the social exchange relationship within boards. Specifically, dissent is more likely to occur when the board chair who appointed the indep...
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作者：Nandkumar, Anand; Srikanth, Kannan
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Singapore Management University
摘要：Research summary: Prior work has shown that the strength of the intellectual property regime (IPR) in a host country influences offshore R&D to that country. Building on this work we propose that the strength of the IPR in a host country differentially influences the threat of knowledge leakage on projects that are produced for the location where the multinational firm is headquartered (home) versus the offshore location to which the R&D project is sent (host). We argue and show that when the ...
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作者：Fonti, Fabio; Maoret, Massimo
作者单位：Universite de Rennes; ESC Rennes School of Business; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：Research summary: In this paper we adopt a core-periphery approach to specify the direct and indirect effects of social capital on organizational performance. We suggest that social capital deriving from stable task relationships between organizational members has a direct positive effect on organizational performance. Said effect depends, in both strength and functional form, on whether actors involved in stable dyads are located at the core or at the periphery of the organization. We also ar...
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作者：Singh, Harpreet; Kryscynski, David; Li, Xinxin; Gopal, Ram
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Brigham Young University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Research summary: Innovation requires inventors to have both new knowledge and the ability to combine and configure knowledge (i.e., combinatory knowledge), and such knowledge may flow through networks. We argue that both combinatory knowledge and new knowledge are accessed through collaboration networks, but that inventors' abilities to access such knowledge depends on its location in the network. Combinatory knowledge transfers from direct contacts, but not easily from indirect contacts. In ...
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作者：Lee, Jeho; Song, Jaeyong; Yang, Jae-Suk
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); Columbia University
摘要：Research summary: The literature on network effects has implicitly assumed that an increase in the size of the installed base magnifies network effects, which is a source of incumbency advantage. We argue that the overemphasis on this relationship has resulted in controversy and confusion in the literature, where the role of social networks remains largely unaddressed. By developing computational models of network effects with various network structures, we show that social distance in a custo...
