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作者：Hann, Rebecca N.; Subasi, Musa; Zheng, Yue
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Research SummaryUsing a novel dataset that provides a comprehensive coverage of U.S. firms' industrial supply chain relationships, we find that firms with innovation specific to a buyer are more likely to share a common director with that buyer. This association is stronger when the buyer has a larger number of alternative suppliers. We further find that when a supplier-buyer pair shares a common director, the supplier's R&D investment is more sensitive to the investment opportunities of its b...
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作者：He, Tony L.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Research SummaryThis study examines how corporate political influence in developed democracies is more likely to occur where visibility is lower, both in terms of the actors involved and of the points of influence in allocation processes. Using novel data on politically exposed persons across 28 European countries (2011-2017), I distinguish between elected and unelected political agents in shaping public procurement outcomes. Unelected agents, particularly aides, advisors, and administrative s...
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作者：Jue-Rajasingh, Diana; Koo, Wesley W.
作者单位：Rice University; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Research summaryAs social ventures expand beyond their original marginalized customers, they face demand-side limitations to scale. This study examines how a common tool for managing strategic change - origin stories - affects non-marginalized customers' responses. In a survey-based field experiment with an Indian feminine hygiene company that initially served rural customers but now targets urban customers, we found that telling origin stories reduced urban customers' purchase intentions comp...
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作者：Tang, Lisa
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Research SummaryWhile prior research has examined organizational- and CEO-level antecedents to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) capabilities, less is known about how those below the CEO may shape the ways in which firms conduct acquisitions. In this study, I argue that Corporate Development Executives (CDEs), the specialized executives who lead M&A efforts inside companies, also play an important role in the M&A process. Through a hand-collected dataset on CDEs in S&P 500 information technology ...
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作者：Kim, Heeyon; Heo, Yoonjeoung; Chung, Chi-Nien
作者单位：Cornell University; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Research SummaryThis study investigates how producers' status shapes their strategies for category shifting of their artists. Unlike prior research emphasizing its limitations, we argue that in creative industries, category shifting can offer substantial advantages. Focusing on producer-driven markets, we propose that middle-status producers align artists with market-dominant categories, while high-status ones pursue periodic radical shifts. However, for female artists, producers' influence on...
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作者：Amengual, Matthew; Distelhorst, Greg
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：Research SummaryCorporate social performance depends not only on a firm's behavior but also on the behavior of its suppliers. What management strategies improve the social performance of suppliers? Scholarship on inter-firm relations and regulatory governance debates the efficacy of threatening to penalize suppliers, compared with more cooperative approaches. This study uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effects of typical actions to manage supplier social performanc...
