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作者：Mulotte, Louis; Dussauge, Pierre; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：Tilburg University; Tilburg University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Duke University; University of Toronto
摘要：We study how firms' use of in-licensing for their initial entry to a business domain can detract from the performance of their subsequent autonomous endeavors in the domain. We argue that in-licensing produces high levels of causal ambiguity about factors that drive the performance achieved with the licensed product. In turn, the experience that firms gather through pre-entry licensing is likely to generate superstitious learning and overconfidence that undermine the performance of licensees' ...
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作者：Kapoor, Rahul; Lee, Joon Mahn
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：We consider firms in the context of their business ecosystems and explore how differences in the ways in which firms are organized with respect to complementary activities affect their decision to invest in new technologies. We argue that, in addition to creating differences in incentives and bureaucratic costs, firm-complementor organizational form plays an important role in the firm's ability to coordinate accompanying changes in complementary activities so as to shape the benefits from inve...
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作者：Afuah, Allan
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Rooted in neoclassical economics, network effects research has revolved around size, arguing that the more users a network has, the more valuable that network will be to each user. I argue that a network's structure (feasibility of transactions, centrality of members, structural holes, network ties, the number of roles each member plays) and its conduct (opportunistic behavior, reputation signaling, perceptions of trust) also have significant impacts on a network's value to users and to networ...
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作者：Nielsen, Bo Bernhard; Nielsen, Sabina
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Technology Sydney; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This research reexamines the equivocal relationship between top management team (TMT) diversity and firm performance. Combining upper echelons theory with insights from institutional theory, we establish a new, timely dimension of TMT diversitynationality diversityand develop an integrated multilevel framework explaining how its performance implications vary across contextual settings. We find that nationality diversity is positively related to performance; and this effect is stronger in (a) l...
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作者：Chung, Chi-Nien; Luo, Xiaowei Rose
作者单位：National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We examine how leadership transition affects firm performance in emerging economies. Building upon the social embeddedness and neo-institutional perspectives, we argue for the importance of alignment between successor origin and social context for firm performance. We suggest that as a baseline outside successors enhance firm profitability because of the large-scale and rapid changes in emerging markets. However, this outsider premium is reduced in firms embedded in family and business group r...
