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作者：Keum, D. Daniel
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Strong ownership of the product development process, while facilitating the generation of new products, can exacerbate escalating commitment and impede timely termination. We examine how managers, with foresight, use buy vs. make decisions to create psychological and organizational distance from a product and preempt escalating commitment. Using detailed product-level data from the fashion industry and its unique features, we show that managers contract manufacture risky products even when the...
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作者：Desjardine, Mark R.; Li, Boshuo; Shi, Wei
作者单位：Dartmouth College; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University of Miami
摘要：This study extends competitive dynamics research by theorizing how and when information about a firm may be shaped by competitive forces operating through information intermediaries. Arguing that ownership bestows investors with influence over information intermediaries from which investors can profit, we suggest that firms receive less favorable ratings from rating agencies in which their rivals' investors have greater ownership. Building on research in this vein, we develop a dynamic theory ...
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作者：Rauch, Madeleine
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：To investigate how workers enact idealized futures in extreme contexts, I analyze 63 unsolicited personal diaries of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping officers, as well as interviews, documents, and observational data related to UN peacekeeping missions. My findings reveal how peacekeepers navigate tensions between their idealized aspirations to achieve peace and the often-mundane aspects of their fieldwork. Central to these tensions is the experience of existential boredom, which plays a cruci...
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作者：Gruber, Marc
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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作者：Knight, Eric; Lok, Jaco; Jarzabkowski, Paula; Wenzel, Matthias
作者单位：Macquarie University; Macquarie University; University of Queensland; City St Georges, University of London; Leuphana University Luneburg
摘要：Drawing on video recordings, interviews, and first-hand observations of a strategic project team at an electronic bank, we explore the role of atmosphere in collective sense-making. By analyzing collective entanglements of bodily tonality and interaction, we show how distinctive atmospheres in strategy-making workshops are closely associated with different sensemaking styles that shape not only how but also what sense is constructed. Our findings show that in group settings, participants' imma...
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作者：Kilduff, Martin; Wang, Kun; Lee, Sun Young; Tsai, Wenpin; Chuang, You-Ta; Tsai, Fu-Sheng
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; York University - Canada; Cheng Shiu University
摘要：Rivalry is endemic in society and organizations, fueling competitive intentions and behaviors. According to social network theory, rivalry emerges among people who, like siblings, have many of the same connections to others. For this structurally equivalent rivalry to have its effects, the individual must see the other person as a rival. We ask whether, in the context of competition, people seek to identify the knowledge providers of their rivals while striving to hide their own knowledge prov...
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作者：Zhang, Jiamin; Shi, Wei; Connelly, Brian L.
作者单位：Fudan University; University of Miami; Auburn University System; Auburn University; Deakin University
摘要：Screening theory explains how decision-makers search for and use external cues to overcome information asymmetry problems under conditions of uncertainty. We introduce screen credibility, screen necessity, and screen salience to the screener as boundary conditions that determine screen efficacy. We test our ideas in the context of corporate venture capital (CVC) funding aimed at industries where firms do not yet compete. These decisions are fraught with uncertainty, so we suggest that CVC deci...
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作者：Shi, Xianwei; Liang, Xingkun; Ansari, Shahzad (shaz)
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Peking University; University of Cambridge
摘要：While scholars have explored how focal firms harness demand-side value through ecosystem development, less emphasis has been placed on understanding how peripheral complementors become competitive. Unlike focal firms, complementors can seldom set value extraction rules. How can complementors lacking critical supply-side resources establish themselves as ecosystem leaders? We conducted a longitudinal analysis of Xiaomi, which began life as a smartphone software complementor within the Android e...
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作者：Wu, Xiaoteng; Adbi, Arzi; Mahmood, Ishtiaq pasha
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Management literature on how interorganizational relationships influence firm performance has emphasized the importance of connections, positions, and cliques. We advance this literature by examining how network communities (membership in cohesive network structures) shape the performance of venture capital (VC) firms. We propose that community insiders affiliated with at least one network community will outperform outsiders. We also explicate the conditions under which the advantages of netwo...
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作者：Pletneva, Lidiia
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Building on an inductive, qualitative study of employees who experienced griefinducing events such as bereavement or breakup, this paper explores how and with what consequences work becomes a refuge from grief-inducing experiences in people's lives. Using the results of 68 in-depth interviews, I develop an inductive model that shows that grieving employees not only find refuge in work but can also turn their work into a refuge for themselves. In particular, the model explicates how people turn...
