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作者：Westphal, JD; Boivie, S; Chng, DHM
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research on organization-environment relations has focused primarily on formal linkages between organizations such as board interlock ties as a strategy for managing resource dependence. This study examines whether top corporate executives may maintain more informal ties to executives of other firms in order to manage uncertainty arising from resource dependence. Our point of departure is prior research on boards of directors that has examined whether so-called 'broken board ties' (i.e., ties ...
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作者：Henderson, AD; Miller, D; Hambrick, DC
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Scholars have characterized CEO tenures as life cycles ill which executives learn rapidly during their initial time ill office, but then grow stale as they lose touch with the external environment. We argue, however, that the opportunities for adaptive learning are limited because (1) a CEO assunies office with a relatively fixed paradigm that changes little thereafter; (2) inertia limits the speed at which all organization call align itself with a new CEO's paradigm; and (3) for am within -pa...
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作者：Fuentelsaz, L; Gómez, J
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：The objective of this study is to integrate both multimarket contact and strategic similarity in the analysis of entry decisions. We also analyze the role of the reciprocity, of contacts, market concentration, and coordination mechanisms at moderating the relationship. Our hypotheses are tested through the analysis of entry, behavior into new geographical markets in the Spanish savings bank market. Interestingly, our results offer an opportunity of conciliating conflicting evidence in both the...
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作者：Kim, SM; Mahoney, JT
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要：This paper examines the effects of information technology (IT) on the governance of vertically related firms. We propose that a highly relation-specific IT system in inter-firm transactions plays a key role in the resulting inter-firm governance as a mutual sunk-cost commitment, in terms of leading to both less vertical integration (i.e., a change in governance mode as a first-order effect) and a smaller number of suppliers (i.e., a change within a governance mode as a second order effect). As...
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作者：Carter, R; Hodgson, GM
作者单位：University of Hertfordshire
摘要：Transaction cost economics (TCE), as developed and operationalized by Oliver Williamson, is one of the most prominent and influential developments in the social sciences. In recent years, on the basis of many empirical studies, it has been claimed that the evidence has corroborated TCE. If so, this would have major implications for the debate between TCE and other approaches to understanding the nature of the firm. In this paper we submit the most prominent TCE empirical work to critical scrut...
