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作者：Li, Dan; Eden, Lorraine; Hitt, Michael A.; Ireland, R. Duane
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：Like governance structure and alliance scope, partner selection may serve to safeguard firms' intellectual assets in R&D alliances. We categorize potential alliance partners into friends, acquaintances, and strangers, depending on their previous alliance experience. Data on 1,159 R&D alliances indicate that the more radical an alliance's innovation goals, the more likely it is that partners are friends rather than strangers. However, strangers are preferred to acquaintances, suggesting partner...
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作者：Bamberger, Peter
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Meyer, Alan D.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：We examine the contagion processes whereby practices originating in one organizational population spread into and diffuse within a second. We theorize that endemic innovations native to one population spread to other populations through two distinct forms of contagion. We test this argument by observing information technology firms' adoption of corporate venture capital programs. Results suggest that geographic proximity triggers cross-population contagion, that within-population contagion ari...
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作者：Mesquita, Luiz F.; Brush, Thomas H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：We untangle safeguard and coordination effects of interfirm governance mechanisms in the context of hazardous buyer-supplier relationships. We propose that the extent to which such mechanisms prevail as safeguards or coordination devices varies with the moderating effects of complexity and asset specificity. In nonspecific but complex exchanges, such mechanisms operate more as coordination mechanisms, whereas in specific, noncomplex ones, they are safeguard mechanisms. Through a system of math...
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作者：Margolis, Joshua D.; Molinsky, Andrew
作者单位：Harvard University; Brandeis University
摘要：We develop grounded theory about how individuals respond to the subjective experience of performing necessary evils and how that influences the way they treat targets of their actions. Despite the importance and difficulty of delivering just, compassionate treatment when it is most needed-when necessarily harming another person-little research has focused on those who must do so. Using qualitative data from 111 managers, doctors, police officers, and addiction counselors, we document how perfo...
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作者：Westphal, James D.; Clement, Michael B.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We examine how the disclosure of negative firm information may prompt top executives to render personal and professional favors for security analysts, who may reciprocate by rating firms relatively positively. We further examine how negative ratings may prompt executive negative reciprocity toward an analyst and how such retaliation may deter other analysts' negative ratings. Because analyst recommendations influence investor behavior, firm reputation, and access to capital, our theory and sup...
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作者：Chua, Roy Yong Joo; Ingram, Paul; Morris, Michael W.
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This article investigates the configuration of cognition- and affect-based trust in managers' professional networks, examining how these two types of trust are associated with relational content and structure. Results indicate that cognition-based trust is positively associated with economic resource, task advice, and career guidance ties, whereas affect-based trust is positively associated with friendship and career guidance ties but negatively associated with economic resource ties. The exte...
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作者：Tong, Tony W.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Peng, Mike W.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：According to real options theory, international joint ventures (IJVs) offer valuable growth options, yet there has been no direct evidence of whether, and under what conditions, firms actually capture such value. We argue that an IJV's ownership structure, product-market focus, and geographic location are important contingencies affecting the value of embedded growth options. Our evidence confirms that IJVs do enhance firms' growth option values, but only under certain circumstances. Specifica...
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作者：Miller, Douglas J.; Fern, Michael J.; Cardinal, Laura B.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Victoria; University of Victoria; Tulane University
摘要：We propose that searching for and transferring knowledge across divisions in a diversified firm can cultivate innovation. Using a sample of 211,636 patents from 1,644 companies during the period 1985-96, we find that the use of interdivisional knowledge positively affects the impact of an invention on subsequent technological developments. Furthermore, the positive effect of the use of interdivisional knowledge on the impact of an invention is stronger than the effect of using knowledge from w...
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作者：Martin, Kelly D.; Cullen, John B.; Johnson, Jean L.; Parboteeah, K. Praveen
作者单位：Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Whitewater; Washington State University
摘要：Local firms in their home countries often engage in behavior that constitutes corruption, at least through some cultural lenses. One such practice is bribery of public officials. This study uses multilevel theory to address the question of why bribery activity of this type differs among countries. We analyze responses from nearly 4,000 firms worldwide using hierarchical linear modeling to investigate cross-level predictions about bribery. Drawing from anomie theory, we find support for country...
