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作者：Cusumano, Michael A.; Kahl, Steven J.; Suarez, Fernando F.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dartmouth College; Boston University
摘要：Services of different types have become increasingly important for product firms. While these firms mainly focus on products, managers and researchers lack a comprehensive framework to understand when to make significant investments in particular kinds of services. We identify three categories of product-related services from a product firmsmoothing and adapting services, which complement products, and substitution services, which enable customers to pay for the use of a product without buying...
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作者：Tortoriello, Marco
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：Building on absorptive capacity and social network research, in this paper I investigate how individuals inside the organization use external knowledge to generate innovations. Through original sociometric data collected from 276 scientists, researchers, and engineers from the Research and Development division of a large multinational high-tech company, I show that the effects of external knowledge on individuals' innovativeness are contingent upon individuals' position in the internal social ...
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作者：Xia, Fan; Walker, Gordon
作者单位：Universite de Rennes; ESC Rennes School of Business; Southern Methodist University
摘要：Who owns the firm (the state, private ownership, foreign investors) has long been an important topic for research on organizations. This paper estimates how much ownership contributes to firm performance, compared to other factors, including industry, region, firm size, year, and the firm itself. The data are on manufacturing firms in mainland China from 1998 to 2007. We find that the effect of owner type is significant and pervasive across regions and interacts with both geography and time, r...
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作者：Greve, Henrich R.; Seidel, Marc-David L.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of British Columbia
摘要：The wide variation in the success of innovations obscures similarities in the process of firms being influenced by other firms when choosing production technology. We argue that diffusion processes are similar across successful and failed innovations. Production asset innovation success results not only from innovation quality differencesearly chance events and subsequent path dependence are also intrinsic to diffusion processes. Thus, diffusion processes do not reliably spread the best innova...
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作者：Kim, Heechun; Hoskisson, Robert E.; Lee, Seung-Hyun
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Rice University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This study examines firm profitability differences among new multinational enterprises (NMNEs) pursuing geographic diversification into two distinct types of geographic locations based on the development of strategic factor markets. Building on strategic factor markets theory, we propose that firm-specific advantages of NMNEs contribute differentially to firm profitability because they evolve differently given strategic factor market differences in host compared to home countries. Using a samp...
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作者：Harmon, Derek J.; Kim, Peter H.; Mayer, Kyle J.
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Contract violations are ubiquitous. There has been little attention, however, dedicated to understanding the mechanisms involved in making sense of and addressing such occurrences. Two experimental studies investigated how people interpret contract violations and how these interpretations affect trust and the management of relationships. By drawing on the distinction between violations of the letter versus spirit of the law, we show that letter violations are more difficult to overcome than sp...
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作者：Jarzabkowski, Paula; Kaplan, Sarah
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; University of Toronto
摘要：In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by strategy makers. In conceptualizing strategy tools as tools-in-use, we offer a framework for examining the ways that the affordances of strategy tools and the agency of strategy makers interact to shape how and when tools are selected and applied. Further, rather than evaluating the correct or incorrect use of tools, we...
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作者：Manikandan, K. S.; Ramachandran, J.
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：We extend the institutional voids perspective on business groups by examining the value-adding potential of two of the characteristic features of business groups: their diverse portfolio and multi-entity organizational form. We maintain that portfolio diversity affords affiliates privileged access to opportunities hidden by incomplete strategic factor markets. We hypothesize that the multi-entity organizational form enables superior sensing and seizing of these growth opportunities by affiliat...
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作者：Ridge, Jason W.; Aime, Federico; White, Margaret A.
作者单位：Clemson University; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Tulsa
摘要：We integrate the seemingly contradictory theoretical predictions of behavioral and economic perspectives about the relationship between pay disparity and firm performance and show that tournament and social comparison theories are more supplementary than contradictory in nature. Our results show that high levels of firm performance will be found around either meaningfully low or meaningfully high levels of pay disparity. Additional findings indicate that this curvilinear relationship is weaken...
