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作者：Shinkle, George A.; Kriauciunas, Aldas P.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：Northian institutional theory argues that firms adapt to their current institutional environments. Organizational imprinting theory argues that firms will be constrained by their founding institutional environments. We explore the combined influence of these two institutional environments on the strength of competitive aspirations using a unique dataset of firms in the shifted institutional environment of Central European transition economies. Our results indicate founding institutional enviro...
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作者：Kim, Kwang-Ho; Tsai, Wenpin
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Extending social comparison theory to the context of interfirm competition, we investigate whether and under what conditions firms may benefit by deviating from consumers' views concerning firm comparisons. Based on all of the possible dyadic competitive comparisons among the 26 automakers in the United States, we found that: (1) a focal firm enjoys a greater increase in sales than the target firm when it compares itself with a more reputable target firm, even though consumers do not perceive ...
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作者：Jansen, Justin J. P.; Simsek, Zeki; Cao, Qing
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Connecticut
摘要：Research suggests that unit-level ambidexterity positively impacts subsequent unit performance but theory and testing on this impact remain impoverished. We develop a cross-level model suggesting that structural and resource attributes of the organizational context significantly shape the relationship between unit ambidexterity and performance. Using multisource and lagged data from 285 organizational units located within 88 autonomous branches, results from hierarchical linear modeling show t...
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作者：Fortune, Annetta; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：Widener University; Duke University; University of Toronto
摘要：Evolutionary theory of business activity studies how firms are selected out of environments in which they do not fit, but most existing work underemphasizes the distinction between acquisition and dissolution as selection processes. We address this gap with a multilevel analysis that investigates how managerial and functional organizational capabilities affect whether struggling firms exit by acquisition or dissolution. We demonstrate that managerial and functional capabilities have heterogene...
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作者：Agarwal, Rajshree; Anand, Jaideep; Bercovitz, Janet; Croson, Rachel
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We integrate insights from organization design, economic game theory, and social psychology to examine the role of prior resource allocation and communication in alleviating behavioral uncertainty arising in interunit coordination settings. We use the context of post-acquisition coordination, focusing on the extent to which routines created under one organizational architecture (i.e., interorganizational alliances) may transfer to another organizational architecture (i.e., internal divisional ...
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作者：Fern, Michael J.; Cardinal, Laura B.; O'Neill, Hugh M.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Although an entrepreneur's initial strategy choices have a critical effect on a new venture's survival, growth, and long-term performance, few studies have explored how pre-founding experience influences these choices. Founders who over rely on their historical industry experiences may simply replicate the strategies of legacy firms. In turn, little is known about how founders can break these experience-based constraints, if they exist. In an empirical analysis of 120 prospective entrants in a...
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作者：Connelly, Brian L.; Miller, Toyah; Devers, Cynthia E.
作者单位：Auburn University System; Auburn University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Tulane University
摘要：Although considerable research has examined the role of trust in interorganizational relationship (IOR) contracting, scholars have devoted less attention to how trust and distrust jointly influence this process. We propose and test a model wherein trust, based on partner reliability, is constrained to the IOR exchange context where it develops and does not generalize to other contexts. Distrust, rooted in value incongruence, more readily generalizes across exchange contexts. Results support th...
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作者：Fjeldstad, Oystein D.; Snow, Charles C.; Miles, Raymond E.; Lettl, Christopher
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Melbourne; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：Firms increasingly face competitive pressures related to rapid and continuous adaptation to a complex, dynamic, and highly interconnected global environment. Pressing challenges include keeping pace with shorter product life cycles, incorporating multiple technologies into the design of new products, cocreating products and services with customers and partners, and leveraging the growth of scientific and technical knowledge in many sectors. In response, we observe experimentation with new orga...
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作者：Barden, Jeffrey Q.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Received research suggests that a firm subsidiary's acquisition by a new owner has countervailing effects on the subsidiary's innovation adoption behavior. On one hand, ownership change can make a subsidiary more receptive to innovation by reducing some inertial forces and introducing new resources to overcome others. Alternatively, the costs and demands of an acquisition can draw decision makers' attention away from important innovations in the technological environment. This event history st...
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作者：Walls, Judith L.; Berrone, Pascual; Phan, Phillip H.
作者单位：Concordia University - Canada; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Corporate governance scholars are increasingly interested in firms' social and environmental performance. Empirical research in this area, however, has moved forward in an uncoordinated fashion, producing fragmented and contradictory results. Our paper seeks to address this situation by adopting a fact-based research approach that comprehensively explores the link between corporate governance and environmental performance. Specifically, we aim to understand how the relationships between and am...
