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作者：Bertrand, Olivier; Capron, Laurence
作者单位：Universite de Lille; SKEMA Business School; Universite Cote d'Azur; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We examine whether ex post domestic productivity gains accrue to firms making cross-border acquisitions. We argue that cross-border acquisitions can enhance the acquirers' productivity at home, and we posit that these domestic productivity gains will be greater when there are learning opportunities in the target's host country and when contemporaneous domestic productivity-enhancing investments are made by the acquirer in conjunction with the acquisition. These predictions are supported by dat...
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作者：Krause, Ryan; Priem, Richard; Love, Leonard
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Luiss Guido Carli University; Texas A&M University System
摘要：At the pinnacles of organizations, comparative tests of unity of command and shared command are nearly impossible because only one individual sits atop most organizations. In organizations led by co-CEOs, however, such a test is possible because co-CEOs can truly share power. But do they? Our research pits the unity-of-command principle against the shared-command principle and finds overall support for the former, even within the co-CEO context. Our sample of 71 co-CEO pairs at publicly traded...
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作者：Mayer, Michael C. J.; Stadler, Christian; Hautz, Julia
作者单位：University of Bath; University of Warwick; University of Innsbruck
摘要：We establish prior diversification experience as a key determinant of the relationship between growth of product and international diversification. Prior diversification experience allows firms to overcome short-run constraints on simultaneous diversification growth imposed by the difficulty to transfer tacit knowledge, ambiguous competencies, and limited absorptive capacity. Studying U.S. and European firms, we find a positive relationship between growth in product and international scope for...
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作者：Bettis, Richard A.; Gambardella, Alfonso; Helfat, Constance; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Bocconi University; Dartmouth College; University of Toronto
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作者：Chen, Ming-Jer; Miller, Danny
作者单位：University of Virginia; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta
摘要：Competitive dynamics research, despite progress, lacks a conceptual framework that can extend the field's reach to address today's environment. Increasing stakeholder power and globalization are but two of the organizational and economic forces compelling a broader conceptualization of competition. Our framework expands competitive dynamics along five dimensionsaims of competition, mode of competing, roster of actors, action toolkit, and time horizon of interactionthat prove useful for contras...
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作者：Stevens, Robin; Moray, Nathalie; Bruneel, Johan; Clarysse, Bart
作者单位：Ghent University; HOGENT University College of Applied Sciences & Arts; Imperial College London
摘要：The complexity of issues firms have to attend to make it impossible for CEOs to give their full attention to all issues concurrently. Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm, this paper opens the black box of attention allocation in for-profit social enterprises by showing how attention structures and the context in which the firm operates interplay. Utilizing empirical data on 148 for-profit social enterprises, findings show that the attention structuresother-regarding values, utilita...
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作者：Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Henkel, Joachim
作者单位：Harvard University; Technical University of Munich
摘要：Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can ...
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作者：Bidwell, Matthew; Won, Shinjae; Barbulescu, Roxana; Mollick, Ethan
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; McGill University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：How does employer status benefit firms in the market for general human capital? On the one hand, high status employers are better able to attract workers, who value the signal of ability that employment at those firms provides. On the other hand, that same signal can help workers bid up wages and capture the value of employers' status. Exploring this tension, we argue that high status firms are able to hire higher ability workers than other firms, and do not need to pay them the full value of ...
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作者：Agrawal, Ajay; Cockburn, Iain; Zhang, Laurina
作者单位：University of Toronto; Boston University
摘要：Using novel survey data on technology licensing, we report the first empirical evidence linking the three main sources of failure emphasized in the market design literature (lack of market thickness, congestion, lack of market safety) to deal outcomes. We disaggregate the licensing process into three stages and find that, although lack of market thickness and deal failure are correlated in the first stage, they are not in the latter stages, underscoring the bilateral monopoly conditions under ...
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作者：Ganco, Martin; Ziedonis, Rosemarie H.; Agarwal, Rajshree
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Oregon; Stanford University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Competitive advantage often rests on the skills and expertise of individuals who may leave for rival organizations. Although institutional factors like non-compete regimes shape intra-industry mobility patterns, far less is known about firm-specific reputations built through patent enforcement. This study formally models and empirically tests how a firm's prior litigiousness over patents (i.e., its reputation for IP toughness) influences employee mobility. Based on inventor data from the U.S. ...
