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作者:Acquaah, Moses
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要:The effect of social networking relationships, firm-specific managerial experience, and their interactions on performance between family owned and nonfamily firms are studied. Using data from 106 organizations in Ghana, the findings show that family owned firms benefit more from networking relationships with bureaucratic officials than do nonfamily firms. However, nonfamily firms benefit more from networking relationships with community leaders and firm-specific managerial experience than do f...
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作者:Larkin, Ian; Pierce, Lamar; Gino, Francesca
作者单位:Washington University (WUSTL); Harvard University
摘要:Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. We instead focus on the strategic compensation of nonexecutive employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social comparison and overconfidence reduce the efficacy of individual performance-ba...
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作者:Schildt, Henri; Keil, Thomas; Maula, Markku
作者单位:Aalto University; Hanken School of Economics
摘要:We examine how determinants of absorptive capacity influence learning in alliances over time. Using longitudinal patent cross-citation data, we find an inverted U-shaped pattern over time that is influenced by firm-level and relational factors. Technological similarity only modestly increases learning in the initial stages of a relationship, but moderate levels substantially increase knowledge flows later in the alliance. High technological diversity is related to higher initial learning rates...
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作者:Crilly, Donal; Sloan, Pamela
作者单位:University of London; London Business School; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要:Why are some firms more effective than others at addressing stakeholder concerns? Conventional stakeholder theories focus on variables in the external environment and cannot adequately explain variance across firms operating in the same context. Our matched-pair study of eight global corporations goes inside the firm and investigates the role of managerial cognition on corporate attention to stakeholders. We find that top management's conceptualization of the firm's relationship with societywh...
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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...