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作者：Sliwka, Dirk
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：The connection between strategic change and managerial turnover is studied within a model where managers decide on a firm's strategy Managers as well as firm owners care for the long-term success of a company, but managers are also interested in their own reputation. Due to reputational concerns, managers are reluctant to alter strategic decisions they themselves made in the past even when internal accounting information indicates that they should do so. It is shown that it may well be optimal...
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作者：Lin, Zhiang (John); Yang, Haibin; Demirkan, Irem
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Although alliance studies have generally favored an ambidextrous approach between exploration and exploitation, they tend to overlook a firm's characteristics, its industry constraints, or the dynamic network in which the firm is embedded. This study examines the ambidexterity hypothesis and its boundary conditions with a unique research method. We not only analyze empirical data from five U.S. industries spanning eight years, but also expand theoretical insights to the network level by buildi...
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作者：Gans, Noah; Savin, Sergei
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University
摘要：We consider a rental firm with two types of customers. Contract customers pay fixed, prenegotiated rental fees and expect a high quality of service. Walk-in customers have no contractual relations with the firm and are shopping for price. Given multiple contract and walk-in classes, the rental firm has to decide when to offer service to contract customers and what fees to charge walk-in customers for service. We formulate this rental management problem as a problem in stochastic control and ch...
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作者：Cachon, Gerard P.; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Any buyer that depends on suppliers for the delivery of a service or the production of a make-to-order component should pay close attention to the suppliers' service or delivery lead times. This paper studies a queueing model in which two strategic servers choose their capacities/processing rates and faster service is costly. The buyer allocates demand to the servers based on their performance; the faster a server works, the more demand the server is allocated. The buyer's objective is to mini...
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作者：Hoetker, Glenn; Swaminathan, Anand; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California System; University of California Davis; Duke University
摘要：Modularity in product design and flexible supply chains is increasingly common in buyer-supplier relationships. Although the benefits of supply chain flexibility and component modularity for end-product manufacturers are accepted, little is known about their impact on suppliers. We advance the literature on modularity by exploring how three aspects of a supplier's relationships with its customers affect the supplier's survival: duration of buyer-supplier relationships, autonomy from customers,...
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作者：Jap, Sandy D.; Anderson, Erin
作者单位：Emory University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This research examines the evolution of cooperative interorganizational relationships and provides an empirical test of four propositions from the DSO (Dwyer et al. 1987) hfe-cycle theory, and one proposition from the RV (Ring and Van cle Ven 1994) theory of relationship development. Using primary data from over 1,500 resellers in a channel of distribution, we find that the mature phase is not the pinnacle of the relationship lifecycle; relationship properties (e.g., relationship harmony, over...
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作者：Kogut, Bruce; Urso, Pietro; Walker, Gordon
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Southern Methodist University
摘要：The recorded transactions of venture capital investments permit a direct examination of the Braudel hypothesis that regional markets evolve dynamically and interdependently in reference to a global system. This hyothesis contradicts the popular belief that regional financial development is anchored in dense clusters. Using methods of complex graphs, we analyze 159,561 transactions over nearly 45 years to demonstrate the rapid emergence of a national network of syndications. A giant component e...
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作者：Albuquerque, Paulo; Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Corbett, Charles J.
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We study the global diffusion of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification using a network diffusion framework. We start by investigating the presence and nature of contagion effects by defining alternative cross-country networks and testing their relative strength. Second, we study how the rate of diffusion differs between the two standards and between early- and later-adopting countries. Third, we identify which countries had more influence on diffusion than others. Empirically, we build a diffus...
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作者：Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Yuen, Gigi Y.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Most performance evaluation models in the operations management literature implicitly assume that tasks possess standardized completion criteria. However, in many systems, particularly service and professional work, judgment is frequently required to determine how much time to allocate to a task. In this paper, we show that introducing discretion in task completion adds a fourth variability buffer, quality, to the well-known buffers of capacity, inventory and time. To gain insight into the man...
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作者：Sterman, John D.; Henderson, Rebecca; Beinhocker, Eric D.; Newman, Lee I.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Neoclassical models of strategic behavior have yielded many insights into competitive behavior, despite the fact that they often rely on a number of assumptions-including instantaneous market clearing and perfect foresight-that have been called into question by a broad range of research. Researchers generally argue that these assumptions are good enough to predict an industry's probable equilibria, and that disequilibrium adjustments and bounded rationality have limited competitive implication...
