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作者：Greve, Henrich R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Firms seek to imitate innovations that yield competitive advantage, but imitation can presage disappointment when the innovation value is below expectations. Empirical research has only rarely examined the diffusion of such disappointing innovations, and it is not known whether negative information from past adopters will halt the diffusion process. Likewise, the effect of heterogeneity in the innovation value on its spread has not been systematically investigated. Here, a unique dataset on a ...
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作者：Muller, Alan; Kraussl, Roman
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：Major corporations often respond charitably in times of disaster. However, disasters can also impose nontrivial costs on firms themselves, and under adverse conditions, firms typically donate less, not more. This paper takes a strategic perspective on corporate magnanimity in times of crisis by looking at the relationship between firm value, reputation, and donations by U. S. Fortune 500 firms in the case of Hurricane Katrina. In general, we find that Katrina's landfall was associated with sig...
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作者：Philippe, Deborah; Durand, Rodolphe
作者单位：University of Lausanne; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：Deviance from social norms has been extensively examined in recent strategy research, leaving the strategic implications of conformity largely unexplored. In this article, we argue that firms can elect to conform to a norm along two dimensions: compliance with the goal and level of commitment to the procedures. We then produce a typology of four norm-conforming behaviors, which allows us to isolate differentiated effects of conformity on firm reputation. We examine the corporate environmental ...
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作者：Kotha, Reddi; Zheng, Yanfeng; George, Gerard
作者单位：Imperial College London; University of Hong Kong; Singapore Management University
摘要：We provide evidence that young firms systematically differ from older firms in their innovative output when they enter 'new to the firm' technological niches. We analyze data from 128 biotechnology firms since their inception and track these firms over time. Our analyses reveal that the organizational age at which the firm branches into new technological niches significantly influences its innovative activity. We refine the focus of the extant literature by separately examining the effects of ...
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作者：El Akremi, Assaad; Mignonac, Karim; Perrigot, Rozenn
作者单位：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite de Rennes; Universite de Rennes; ESC Rennes School of Business
摘要：This paper explores social processes between franchisees as a way to control franchisee opportunism. Based on the literature of socio-psychological and interorganizational relationships, we argue that cohesion among franchisees is negatively associated with opportunistic behaviors that are potentially harmful to the whole chain. We use multilevel and multisource data to show that perceptions of cohesion among franchisees relate both to a) how franchisees apply know-how from franchisors (i.e., ...
