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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：Tong, Tony W.; He, Wenlong; Chen, Liang; He, Zi-Lin; Lu, Jiangyong
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Renmin University of China; Singapore Management University; Tilburg University; Peking University
摘要：Research Summary While changes in intellectual property rights (IPR) protection significantly shape firm innovation, the mechanisms driving firms' responses remain poorly understood. Leveraging the Second Amendment to China's Patent Law, which strengthens appropriability particularly for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as a natural experiment, we show that stronger IPR has mixed effects on SOEs' innovation. While SOEs increase the rate of innovation subsequent to the Amendment, they shift the ...
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作者：Wu, Hugh Xiaolong; Liang, Yucheng
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Research Summary Many new employees leave their firms before realizing the returns to experience. One reason is that they cannot see how performance evolves with tenure. We study whether making performance trajectories visible improves retention and firm performance. In a randomized controlled trial at a multinational spa chain in China, workers received twice-weekly information for 28 weeks about the performance path of a high-performing senior coworker. The intervention reduces new-worker at...
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作者：Han, Sang Won; Won, Shinjae
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); Ewha Womans University
摘要：Research Summary We adopt a network-based perspective to examine the effects of hiring strategies in terms of the diversity of hiring sources. Considering the transferability of general and firm-specific skills, we propose that firms can reduce integration costs while gaining diversity benefits when they hire from a focused set of firms that themselves hire broadly. We suggest that occupying this position in the mobility network enhances both innovation and productivity outcomes. Moreover, we ...
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作者：Carballa-smichowski, Bruno; Duch-brown, Nestor; Martens, Bertin; Gomez-losada, Alvaro
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Sevilla
摘要：Research Summary We extend ecosystem theory to cases in which platforms are complementors to each other: inter-platform ecosystems. Analyzing web traffic data on 241 European platforms, we identify and characterize demand-side inter-platform ecosystems, and propose a theory of why they emerge. We posit that demand-side inter-platform ecosystems solve matching problems generated by externalities platforms impose on each other. We describe four strategies platforms implement to solve these probl...
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作者：Diestre, Luis; Barber, Benjamin
摘要：Research Summary This study examines how product shortages among legal firms create competitive opportunities for illegal firms. We analyze 713 drug shortages in the United States between 2017 and 2023 and show that shortages substantially increase illicit pharmacies' sales of affected drugs, which rise by 40.5% during shortages and remain 32.8% higher in the six months after shortages are resolved. The effects are strongest for drugs treating chronic conditions, drugs with fewer substitutes, ...
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作者：Sakhartov, Arkadiy V.; Helfat, Constance E.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Dartmouth College
摘要：Research Summary Although multi-business firms can benefit from resource redeployment, we know little about the effects of alternative organizational arrangements on profits. This study examines a critical organizational choice, namely the centralization or decentralization of decision making. A formal model demonstrates that in the presence of business unit agency costs and costs of centralization, the profits from centralization versus decentralization depend not only on business relatedness...
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作者：Majzoubi, Majid; Murray, Alex; Mayew, William J.
作者单位：York University - Canada; University of Oregon; Duke University
摘要：Research Summary CEO promises are powerful but understudied communication tools. We develop a dual-mechanism framework theorizing that while CEO promises elevate stakeholder expectations, they simultaneously constrain strategic flexibility. We argue that CEO promise-making is shaped by two competing pressures: making more promises when the need to manage expectations upward is heightened and fewer promises when the need to preserve flexibility is increased. Further, we predict that under heigh...
