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作者：Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios)
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：The issue you are about to browse offers an opportunity to share many thanks, some observations, and a few forward-looking thoughts about the department I have had the honor to edit over the last 4 years. It also offers an opportunity to expand the discussion beyond the boundaries of the particular department of Production and Operations Management (POM), and to take stock of the evolution path of the academic community that has formed around the department and its research topics over the pas...
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作者：Schwarz, Leroy B.
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作者：Bendoly, Elliot
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：Systems thinking has proven useful in project management planning activities and has been suggested as a critical driver of a range of beneficial organizational behaviors. Yet, empirical evidence on the myriad of ways in which systems thinking can impact internal project dynamics and performance remains limited. This study focuses on one aspect of systems thinking in particular: the ability to recognize and understand the dynamics of systems and their features (e.g., feedback and delay). It ma...
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作者：Zhang, Guoqiang Peter; Yu, Jifeng; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：Despite the widely held belief of the importance of innovation, the connection between innovation and firm performance is empirically inconclusive, partially owing to the limitations of existing innovation measures, which tend to ignore the effectiveness of innovation programs. In this study, we use the winning of innovation awards as a proxy for the effective execution of innovation. We conducted event-study analyses based on data from more than 1000 publicly traded firms that won innovation ...
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作者：Oraiopoulos, Nektarios; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：We formalize R&D as a search process for technology improvements across different technological domains. Technology improvements from a specific domain draw upon a common knowledge base, and as such they share technological content. Moreover, different domains may rely on similar scientific principles, and therefore, knowledge about the technology improvements by one domain might be transferable to another. We analyze how such a technological relatedness shapes the direction of R&D search when...
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作者：Veldman, Jasper; Klingenberg, Warse; Gaalman, Gerard J. C.; Teunter, Ruud H.
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：Profit-maximizing firm owners who incentivize their managers with a bonus for process improvement create an intentional misalignment of their own objective and management attention. From the viewpoint of a single firm, such a local misalignment can never be profitable, but in this study we take a wider strategic perspective by investigating cost-reducing process improvements of two firms competing in a Cournot market. We find that the use of a process improvement bonus (by firm A) can be profi...
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作者：Peng, David Xiaosong; Heim, Gregory R.; Mallick, Debasish N.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of St Thomas Minnesota
摘要：Collaboration is an essential element of new product development (NPD). This research examines the associations between four types of information technology (IT) tools and NPD collaboration. The relationships between NPD practices and NPD collaboration are also examined. Drawing on organizational information processing theory, we propose that the relationships between IT tools and NPD collaboration will be moderated differently by three project complexity dimensions, namely, product size, proj...
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作者：Zschocke, Mark S.; Mantin, Benny; Jewkes, Elizabeth M.
作者单位：University of Waterloo
摘要：Although project portfolio management has been an active research area over the past 50 years, budget allocation models that consider competition are sparse. Faced with the competition, firms contemplating budget allocation for their project portfolio cannot limit their attention to the returns from their projects' target markets, as is the case for monopoly firms, but must also anticipate the competitive effects on these returns. Assuming firms allocate their budgets between projects offering...
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作者：Wu, Yaozhong; Ramachandran, Karthik; Krishnan, Vish
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：The rising trend of projects with high-skilled and autonomous contributors increasingly exposes managers to the risk of idiosyncratic individual behaviors. In this article, we examine the effects of an important behavioral factor, an individual's cost salience. Cost salience leads individuals to perceive the cost of immediate effort to be larger than the cost of future effort. This leads to procrastination in early stages and back-loaded effort over the course of the project. We model the prob...
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作者：Narayanan, Sriram; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.; Talluri, Srinivas
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We examine the role of knowledge diversity among unit members on an organizational unit's productivity. Utilizing a proprietary data set of corrective maintenance tasks from a large software-services firm, we investigate the impact of two key within-unit diversity metrics: interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity. We analyze the independent influence of interpersonal diversity and the interactive influence of interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity on organizational unit...
