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作者：Bacco, Francesca; Coali, Andrea; Wormald, Audra
作者单位：University of Milano-Bicocca; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：Research Summary This study examines whether training entrepreneurs to apply systematic approaches to strategic decision-making influences their self-perception of ability. Using a field experiment in which 151 entrepreneurs in Tanzania were randomly assigned to two different versions of entrepreneurial training (an evidence-based vs. a theory-and-evidence-based approach), we find entrepreneurs in the theory-and-evidence-based condition experience a larger and more persistent increase in their...
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作者：Loh, Johannes; Elsas-Nicolle, Ambre
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Munich; Universite PSL; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); MINES ParisTech
摘要：Research Summary We study how the entry of a rival platform affects the strategies of the incumbent's complementors. The latter face a trade-off: While the entry threatens their benefits from indirect network effects, it also allows them to escape intense within-platform competition. Studying Epic Games' entry into the PC video game market-until then dominated by Steam-we show that this trade-off does not resolve uniformly, driving heterogeneity in strategic reactions. Complementors with weake...
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作者：Shen, Xirong (Subrina)
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Research Summary Firm technological research has the potential to spawn multiple applications. Despite recognizing such potential, past literature disagrees on the process through which firms discover and grow new applications out of their past technological research. I examine this question in the context of deep learning, taking a question-driven approach. Difference-in-difference analysis suggests that firms radically increased cumulative investments in past deep learning research upon sign...
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作者：Kovacs, Balazs; Sels, Tim
作者单位：Yale University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Research Summary We examine political affiliation's role in venture team formation and success. Using data from Crunchbase and L2 on 1125 US-based startups, we investigate political homophily in team assembly and its association with startup outcomes. Our analysis reveals strong political homogeneity in founding teams: teams with similar political views form more frequently than diverse teams, even after controlling for founders' gender, age, location, and industry. This political homophily re...
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作者：Li, Ying; Reis, Samira; Khessina, Olga M.
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra-industry competition. However, cross-industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer-oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries. Drawing from social cognition theories, we introduce two mechanisms-cultural embeddedness and social salience-that lead consumers to perceive products in an emerging industry as via...
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作者：Seo, Eunkwang; Dinkel, Christopher P.
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：Research Summary Strategy scholars have theoretically explored the relationship between legal knowledge protection and modularity of innovation activities in firms, but this relationship has yet to be empirically tested in the literature. Leveraging state-level changes in US trade secrecy law and using a network modularity measure, this paper examines how trade secret protection affects the modularity of firms' innovation activities. Analyzing intrafirm inventor collaboration patterns in US pa...
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作者：Joseph, John; Wilson, Alex James; Park, Jay; Chow, Daniel
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Research Summary Prior research predicts that information technology (IT) decentralizes decisions by increasing access to information relevant for decision-making. Yet this view underestimates the coordination challenges and communication costs created by interdependent work. We argue that while an IT system with its accessibility and standardization of information may facilitate the decentralization of decisions, decentralization also requires uniform interpretation and utilization of the inf...
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作者：Yan, Shipeng; Zhang, Fan; Li, Zhengyu
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Melbourne
摘要：Research Summary Can environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investors hold businesses accountable for their environmental impact? Extending institutional theory and analyzing a global sample of firms from 2006 to 2019, we argue that, in response to ESG investors' institutional pressures, firms may intensify pollution outsourcing to suppliers as a sophisticated form of corporate decoupling. We further theorize and find suggestive evidence that this effect is less salient and sometimes reve...
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作者：Ahn, Jungsoo; Vergne, Jean-philippe; Sharkey, Amanda
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University; University of London; University College London; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Research Summary Scholars have theorized many factors shaping whether category spanning helps or hurts producers. We first synthesize evidence by meta-analyzing 25 years of empirical research, which reveals a null effect of spanning on average, yet with significant subsample heterogeneity. To unpack it, we theorize and find that spanning hurts producers more (i) when spanning occurs within bounded (vs. unbounded) category systems, (ii) when category associations are made by third parties (vs. ...
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作者：Durand, Rodolphe; Munro-Clark, Harrison John
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：Research Summary What is the most effective way to distribute organizational objectives across managers? While prior work suggests managers should each focus on a single objective, we draw on Barnard's original insights on corporate purpose to identify conditions when managers pursuing the full set of objectives is advantageous. Using a computational model, we find that moderate strategic diversity amongst managers enables practice sharing to generate sufficiently valuable distant search to of...
