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作者：Fernhaber, Stephanie A.; Patel, Pankaj C.
作者单位：Butler University; Ball State University
摘要：Building a complex portfolio of products can be beneficial for young firms due to increased sales growth and competitiveness. Yet, the benefits from product portfolio complexity (PPC) are often outweighed by rising costs, leading to an inverted U-shaped relationship between PPC and performance. Recent research has called for an increased understanding of how firms are able to better manage higher levels of PPC. We suggest that absorptive capacity and ambidexterity are vital to enhancing the be...
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作者：Mihalache, Oli R.; Jansen, Justin J. J. P.; Van den Bosch, Frans A. J.; Volberda, Henk W.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：This study attempts to increase the understanding of how offshoring influences the introduction of new products and services. Focusing on the offshoring of those business functions that provide direct knowledge inputs for innovation (i.e., production, R&D, and engineering), we propose that offshoring has an inverted U-shaped influence on firm innovativeness. Additionally, we provide an upper echelon contingency perspective by considering the moderating role of two top management team (TMT) att...
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作者：Turner, Karynne L.; Makhija, Mona V.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Researchers' primary concern with respect to the information processing perspective has been to understand how structural features influence the organization's ability to draw upon and utilize information for resolving problems, ignoring the primary role of individuals as the information processors within the organization. To shed light on this issue, we employ a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of two structural types, organic and mechanistic, on individuals' gathering, interp...
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作者：Mishina, Yuri; Block, Emily S.; Mannor, Michael J.
作者单位：Imperial College London; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Drawing upon theory on social judgments and impression formation from social psychology, this paper explores the socio-cognitive processes that shape the formation of favorable and unfavorable organizational reputations. Specifically, we suggest that stakeholders make distinctions between an organization's capabilities and its character. We explain the nature and function of each and articulate the manner in which judgment heuristics and biases manifest in the development of capability and cha...
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作者：Souder, David; Simsek, Zeki; Johnson, Scott G.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：This paper builds and tests the thesis that CEO influence evolves differently for founders and agents. We theorize that at the beginning of their tenures, founder CEOs can pursue market expansion more aggressively than agent CEOs, because they take office with the combination of motivation, power, and requisite knowledge that agent CEOs build over time. Subsequently, however, founder CEOs have less access to the administrative infrastructure necessary to sustain a growing firm, making them les...
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作者：Haleblian, Jerayr (John); McNamara, Gerry; Kolev, Kalin; Dykes, Bernadine J.
作者单位：Michigan State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Delaware
摘要：Research in strategic management has shown that the timing of firm participation in a merger wave matters, as early movers have been shown to outperform later ones. However, while the consequences of the timing of action within a merger wave have been assessed, the causes that drive these timing effects remain unknown. We draw on the competitive dynamics perspective to investigate firm-level factors that influence the large-scale strategic behavior of leading or following within industry merge...
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作者：Wang, Taiyuan; Bansal, Pratima
作者单位：IE University; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：Socially responsible activities help create business value, develop strategic resources, and insure against risks, but also cost money and distract management. These prior findings are mainly based on established corporations and may not extend to new ventures in which the liability of newness may suppress some positive effects and amplify some negative impacts of socially responsible activities. New ventures whose strategic decisions have a long-term orientation, however, are able to countera...
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作者：Leone, Maria Isabella; Reichstein, Toke
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Universita LUMSA
摘要：Drawing on contractual economics and innovation management, licensing-in is hypothesized to accelerate licensees' invention process. Studying a matched dataset of licensees and non-licensees, licensees are shown to be faster at inventing, but the effect is negated if the license includes a grant-back clause, shifting incentives from licensee to licensor. Also, the effect is significantly reduced if the licensee is unfamiliar with the licensed technology. The effect of the grant-back clause is ...
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作者：Perryman, Alexa A.; Combs, James G.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; Texas Christian University
摘要：Plural forms exist when managers use two owners to perform one activity. Franchising is a plural form explained by agency theory, however, the theory is unable to explain two franchisor actions: 1) allowing franchisees to own multiple outlets and 2) co-locating company-owned and franchised outlets. We use research that describes a symbiosis between company-owned and franchised outlets to extend agency theory and explain these actions. Our investigation of ownership patterns among 4,339 outlets...
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作者：Benner, Mary J.; Tripsas, Mary
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Harvard University
摘要：New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high uncertainty. In this paper, we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991-2006 by firms from three prior industries. We hypothesize and find that: (1) prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs that results in similar and concurrent firm behavior; (2) fi...
