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作者:Nadler, J; Thompson, L; Van Boven, L
作者单位:Northwestern University; Northwestern University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要:Our review of the learning and training literature revealed four common methods for training people to be more effective negotiators: didactic learning, learning via information revelation, analogical learning, and observational learning. We tested each of these methods experimentally in an experiential context and found that observational learning and analogical learning led to negotiated outcomes that were more favorable for both parties, compared to a baseline condition of learning through ...
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作者:Sorenson, O
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:A growing body of research documents the role that organizational learning plays in improving firm performance over time. To date, however, this literature has given limited attention to the effect that the internal structure of the firm c an have on generating differences in these learning rates. This paper focuses on the degree to which interdependence-and in particular one structural characteristic that generates interdependence, vertical integration-affects organizational learning. Firms f...
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作者:Borgatti, SP; Cross, R
作者单位:Boston College; University of Virginia
摘要:Research in organizational learning has demonstrated processes and occasionally performance implications of acquisition of declarative (know-what) and procedural (know-how) knowledge. However, considerably less attention has been paid to learned characteristics of relationships that affect the decision to seek information from other people. Based on a review of the social network, information processing, and organizational learning literatures, along with the results of a previous qualitative ...
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作者:Menon, T; Pfeffer, J
作者单位:University of Chicago; Stanford University
摘要:This paper compares how managers value knowledge from internal and external sources. Although many theories account for favoritism toward insiders, we find that preferences for knowledge obtained from outsiders are also prevalent. Two complementary case studies and survey data from managers demonstrate the phenomenon of valuing external knowledge more highly than internal knowledge and reveal some mechanisms through which this process occurs. We found evidence that the preference for outsider ...
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作者:Song, J; Almeida, P; Wu, G
作者单位:Yonsei University; Georgetown University; Columbia University
摘要:To investigate the conditions under which learning-by-hiring (or the acquisition of knowledge through the hiring of experts from other firms) is more likely, we study the patenting activities of engineers who moved from United States (U.S.) firms to non-U.S. firms. Statistical findings from negative binomial regressions show that mobility is more likely to result in interfirm knowledge transfer when (1) the hiring firm is less path dependent, (2) the hired engineers possess technological exper...
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作者:Sine, WD; Scott, S; Di Gregorio, D
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of New Mexico
摘要:Sociologists and organizational theorists have long claimed that the processes of knowledge creation and distribution are fundamentally social. Following in this tradition, we explore the effect of institutional prestige on university technology licensing. Empirically, we examine the influence of university prestige on the annual rate of technology licensing by 102 universities from 1991-1998. We show that institutional prestige increases a university's licensing rate over and above the rate t...
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作者:Weber, RA; Camerer, CF
作者单位:Carnegie Mellon University; California Institute of Technology
摘要:We use laboratory experiments to explore merger failure due to conflicting organizational cultures. We introduce a laboratory paradigm for studying organizational culture that captures several key elements of the phenomenon. In our experiments, we allow subjects in firms to develop a culture, and then merge two firms. As, expected, performance decreases following the merging of two laboratory firms. In addition, subjects overestimate the performance of the merged firm and attribute the decreas...
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作者:Lee, J; Lee, J; Lee, H
作者单位:Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Science & Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), Republic of Korea; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Pai Chai University
摘要:This paper examines the conditions under which exploration of a new, incompatible technology is conducive to firm growth in the presence of network externalities. In particular, this study is motivated by the divergent evolutions of the PC and the workstation markets in response to a new technology: reduced instruction set computing (RISC). In the PC market, Intel has developed new microprocessors by maintaining compatibility with the established architecture, whereas it was radically replaced...
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作者:Uzzi, B; Lancaster, R
作者单位:Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要:As a complement to the literature on learning in firms, we investigate learning in markets, a nascent area of study that focuses on how learning occurs between, rather than within, firms. The core idea behind our framework is that networks shape knowledge transfer and learning processes by creating channels for knowledge trade and reducing the risk of learning. In developing our framework, we elaborate on the knowledge transfer capabilities of different types of social ties, the informational ...
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作者:Zellmer-Bruhn, ME
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Interruptions have commonly been viewed as negative and as something for managers to control or limit. In this paper, I explore the relationship between interruptions and acquisition of routines-a form of knowledge-by teams. Recent research suggests that interruptions may play an important role in changing organizational routines, and as such may influence knowledge transfer activities. Results suggest that interruptions influence knowledge transfer effort, and both knowledge transfer effort a...