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作者：Yayavaram, Sai; Shi, Yuan
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Cornell University
摘要：Do investors value firm inventions that recombine distant knowledge across domain boundaries? Analyzing more than 1.5 million firm patents, we find that, despite its strong association with long-term technological impact beyond the local domain, distant recombination of domain knowledge contributes less to a patent's market valuation when compared to local recombination, thereby inducing a misalignment between valuation and impact. This valuation disadvantage is especially pronounced when dist...
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作者：Di Falco, Salvatore; Gagliardi, Luisa; Pelucco, Valerio
作者单位：University of Geneva; Bocconi University; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：This paper investigates how the gender composition of potential heirs influences technology adoption decisions in family-owned agricultural microenterprises. Drawing on primary field data from three waves of panel surveys of 734 rural households in Ethiopia (2013-2019), we exploit the exogenous microshock of a newborn child's gender to isolate its causal impact on farmers' uptake of new technologies. We find that the arrival of a son- rather than a daughter-significantly increases the likeliho...
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作者：Oshotse, Abraham
摘要：A consistent finding in research on cultural markets is that innovation often involves recombining stylistic features across categorical boundaries. Cultural products routinely borrow features from other categories while maintaining their primary classification. However, we observe considerable variance in outcomes: Some borrowing achieves remarkable success, whereas others fail spectacularly. Existing theories of optimal differentiation and category spanning tell us that balancing familiarity...
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作者：Lim, Grace J. H.; Chua, Roy Y. J.
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Singapore Management University
摘要：A commonly held perspective in the cultural tightness literature is that cultural tightness tends to negatively impact creativity. Yet some findings indicate that this relationship is not strictly negative and that a more nuanced perspective should be considered. Drawing on social information processing (SIP) theory and social role theory, we build theory on how the perception of organizational cultural tightness can increase creativity for some employees, but not for others. Specifically, we ...
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作者：Burbano, Vanessa C.; Koo, Wesley W.; Luo, Jiao
作者单位：Columbia University; Johns Hopkins University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Rating systems are a common governance tool on two-sided platforms. Research suggests that, via indirect network effects, rating systems benefit participants on both the rating side and the rated side. However, participants on the rated side may not always recognize the benefits of the rating system and may respond negatively to its introduction. The rating side may anticipate the rated side's negative reactions and react negatively as well, especially when the rated side holds more power over...
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作者：Gartenberg, Claudine; Pak, Elaine
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：How do firms balance market competitiveness with internal cohesion when setting employee pay? We examine this question using confidential compensation data on 19 million U.S. employees across 479 firms varying in knowledge intensity. We construct precise pay reference groups: internal benchmarks based on skill-equivalent peers across functions and market benchmarks based on same occupation, skill level, and region at other firms. We find that in low knowledge-intensity firms, pay is equally se...
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作者：Tatarynowicz, Adam; Keil, Thomas
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Zurich
摘要：Prior research on the relationship between network brokerage and firms' innovation performance has predominantly portrayed the brokering firm as a tertius gaudens, or the benefiting third, which gains informational and coordination advantages from its network position by bridging disconnected and relationally neutral partner firms. We extend this view by theorizing a disadvantaged brokering firm, or broker, which spans two uncooperative partners, or alters, engaged in active conflict with one ...
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作者：Martin, Ashley E.; Flynn, Francis J.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Theories of gender inequality in the workplace rely heavily on stereotypes that describe women as more communal (e.g., warm and kind) and less agentic (e.g., assertive and forceful) than men. In this paper, we highlight the existence of an uncommunal feminine stereotype wherein women are also believed to be more conniving and devious than men, pursuing their personal goals at the expense of others. To explain how this uncommunal stereotype can coexist with its communal counterpart, we posit th...
