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作者：Berchicci, Luca; Dowell, Glen; King, Andrew A.
作者单位：Cornell University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Dartmouth College
摘要：In this article, we investigate whether environmental capabilities influence firms' corporate strategies, a topic that has received little attention to date. We hypothesize that firms are more likely to acquire facilities when ownership facilitates the transfer of capabilities either to or from the facility. Using a panel from the U.S. government's Toxics Release Inventory Program, we find firms with superior environmental capabilities are significantly more likely to acquire physically proxim...
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作者：Montiel, Ivan; Husted, Bryan W.; Christmann, Petra
作者单位：Loyola Marymount University; York University - Canada; Tecnologico de Monterrey; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：This paper investigates how corruption in the institutional environment influences firms' decisions to obtain third-party certification to private management standards as signals of desirable conduct. We argue that policy-specific corruption erodes trust in government efforts to regulate firms' conduct, thus increasing the signaling value of private certifications and the likelihood of certification. However, widespread corruption in the general environment can extend distrust to private certi...
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作者：Zhou, Kevin Zheng; Li, Caroline Bingxin
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Denver
摘要：This paper examines how existing knowledge base (i.e., knowledge breadth and depth) interacts with knowledge integration mechanisms (i.e., external market knowledge acquisition and internal knowledge sharing) to affect radical innovation. Survey data from high technology companies in China demonstrate that the effects of knowledge breadth and depth are contingent on market knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing in opposite ways. In particular, a firm with a broad knowledge base is more li...
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作者：Dezso, Cristian L.; Ross, David Gaddis
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Columbia University
摘要：We argue that female representation in top management brings informational and social diversity benefits to the top management team, enriches the behaviors exhibited by managers throughout the firm, and motivates women in middle management. The result should be improved managerial task performance and thus better firm performance. We test our theory using 15 years of panel data on the top management teams of the S&P 1,500 firms. We find that female representation in top management improves fir...
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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...
