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作者：Maritan, CA
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：This article describes a field study in which insights from the resource-based view of the firm were combined with models of capital investment decision making to investigate the decision processes used to make capital investments in capabilities. The study shows that different decision processes are used to invest in existing and new capabilities and that current models in the literature need to be adapted to capture the differences, which relate primarily to information requirements and mana...
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作者：Henderson, AD; Fredrickson, JW
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The need for coordinated decision making bears on the pay gap between a firm's CEO and its other top executives. A behavioral view suggests that because more equal pay promotes collaboration, greater coordination needs encourage smaller pay gaps, and the combination of greater needs and smaller gaps enhances firm performance, An economic view implies the opposite because larger gaps create tournament-like incentives that address monitoring problems associated with joint decisions. We found tha...
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作者：McGrath, RG
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：When adaptation requires innovation, or the creation of variety, exploration is crucial. High levels of exploration thus imply variance-seeking rather than mean-seeking learning processes. In a study of 56 new business development projects, given high exploration, organizational learning was more effective when the projects operated with autonomy with respect to goals and supervision. As degree of exploration de creased, better results were associated with less autonomy on both counts. This co...
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作者：Siggelkow, N
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A new framework that addresses how tight fit among a firm's activities affects the firm's ability to react to environmental changes is presented. As part of the framework, a new classification scheme for environmental changes is developed. I argue that fit-conserving change, which leaves the internal fit among a firm's activities intact yet decreases the appropriateness of the set of choices as a whole, poses a particularly difficult challenge for managers. A longitudinal case study of the fas...
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作者：Song, M; Montoya-Weiss, MM
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; North Carolina State University
摘要：This article develops a theoretical model that examines the moderating effect of perceived technological uncertainty on new product development (NPD). We tested the theoretical model using 553 Japanese NPD projects. We found that cross-functional integration, marketing and technical project synergy, and proficiency in marketing and technical development activities differentially contribute to project performance under conditions of high and low perceived technological uncertainty. Japanese pro...
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作者：Chatman, JA; Flynn, FJ
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Columbia University
摘要：Drawing from social categorization theory, we found that greater demographic heterogeneity led to group norms emphasizing lower cooperation among student teams and officers from ten business units of a financial services firm. This effect faded over time. Perceptions of team norms among those more demographically different from their work group changed more, becoming more cooperative, as a function of contact with other members. Finally, cooperative norms mediated the relationship between grou...
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作者：Delios, A; Beamish, PW
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This study integrates research on the financial performance of multinational firms with research on foreign subsidiary survival. We examined the influences a firm's intangible assets and its experience have on foreign subsidiary survival and profitability using a sample of 3,080 subsidiaries of 641 Japanese firms. The results show survival and profitability have different antecedents. Host country experience has a direct effect on survival but a contingent relationship with profitability. The ...
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作者：Cannella, AA Jr; Shen, W
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Heirs apparent are frequently a central component of CEO successions but have been largely ignored in the succession literature. Our study examines heir apparent tenures and two contrasting outcomes-promotion to CEO and firm exit. We propose that the distribution of power among an incumbent CEO, outside directors, and an heir apparent influences these outcomes. Results suggest that outside director and CEO power are important influences on heir promotion and exit and that heirs who arise from ...
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作者：Malnight, TW
摘要：This study investigated the nature and extent of organizational change in the context of globalization through a longitudinal matched-pair analysis of two leading pharmaceutical companies. The structures of common processes in each firm were empirically characterized over time. Findings suggest that MNCs respond to complex global competitive environments by increasing internal structural complexity, a systematically differentiated structural response to relevant process subenvironments. Though...
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作者：Waldman, DA; Ramírez, GG; House, RJ; Puranam, P
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; Virginia Commonwealth University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Using data from 48 Fortune 500 firms, we assessed transactional and charismatic CEO leadership as predictors of financial performance. We also hypothesized that the relationship between CEO leadership attributes and performance depends on perceived environmental uncertainty, as reported by immediate CEO subordinates, Uncertainty strongly moderated the relationships between performance (measured in later years) and both transactional leadership and charisma. However, the interaction of transact...
