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作者：Oetzel, Jennifer M.; Oh, Chang Hoon
作者单位：American University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：We investigate whether firm experience with discontinuous risks, particularly high-impact disasters that are episodic and difficult to anticipate, moderates the relationship between disasters, foreign entry, and expansion decisions. Using a panel data set with 57,500 observations from 106 large European multinational corporations and their subsidiaries operating across 109 countries from 2001 to 2007, we find that although discontinuous risk was negatively related to firm entry and expansion, ...
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作者：Etzion, Dror
作者单位：McGill University
摘要：An overlooked aspect of the diffusion of a practice in a population is the emergence of a de facto classificatory schema, distinguishing between actors that adopt a practice and those that do not. To investigate diffusion as classification, I develop a simulation model that highlights the conditions under which limited diffusion of practices leads to the emergence and entrenchment of classificatory schemas. The model depicts classification as a systemic phenomenon resulting from the interplay ...
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作者：Ashforth, Blake E.; Rogers, Kristie M.; Pratt, Michael G.; Pradies, Camille
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Kansas; Boston College
摘要：The experience of simultaneously positive and negative orientations toward a person, goal, task, idea, and such appears to be quite common in organizations, but it is poorly understood. We develop a multilevel perspective on ambivalence in organizations that demonstrates how this phenomenon is integral to certain cognitive and emotional processes and important outcomes. Specifically, we discuss the organizational triggers of ambivalence and the cognitive and emotional mechanisms through which ...
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作者：Yiu, Daphne W.; Xu, Yuehua; Wan, William P.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Sun Yat Sen University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study extends the research on corporate financial fraud by developing a new perspective on the deterrence effects of vicarious punishments premised on social learning theory. We posit that firms vicariously learn about punishments from their peers by picking up modeling cues, environmental cues, and social cues in the inhibitive learning process, thus being deterred from committing future fraudulence. Using a matched sample of 604 observations of Chinese listed firms between 2002 and 2008...
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作者：Chakravarti, Arjun; Menon, Tanya; Winship, Christopher
作者单位：Illinois Institute of Technology; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Harvard University
摘要：The contact hypothesis offers a tantalizing promise, suggesting that people of different races can build positive relationships through contact. The present research situates contact in its local social structure, showing how group size and racial composition shape contact. We analyze a natural experiment at Harvard University where incoming first-year students (freshmen) were randomly assigned to freshman roommates and months later chose their own second-year roommates. Interracial dyads with...
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作者：Kaul, Aseem
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper examines organizational boundary choice from an entrepreneurial perspective. Entrepreneurs create new profit opportunities by recombining existing assets into novel combinations based on their subjective judgment under conditions of uncertainty. In doing so, they become vulnerable to ex post appropriation by owners of uniquely complementary assets, especially where ex ante uncertainty translates into ex post causal ambiguity. Firms are a means by which entrepreneurs overcome this pr...
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作者：Stadler, Christian; Helfat, Constance E.; Verona, Gianmario
作者单位：University of Warwick; Dartmouth College; Bocconi University
摘要：This study analyzes dynamic capabilities that support activities directed toward accessing resources and further developing resources to make them commercially usable. We develop theory and empirically investigate the impact of dynamic capabilities on the amount and success of these activities and whether the impact of dynamic capabilities differs between the two types of activities. Using unique data from the upstream oil industry, we develop an objective measure of dynamic capability that is...
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作者：Stan, Mihaela; Vermeulen, Freek
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; London Business School
摘要：We analyze longitudinal data on British fertility clinics to examine the impact of selection at the gate, i.e., the attempts of organizations to improve the success rate of their output by selecting promising cases as input. In contrast to what might be expected, we argue that more stringent input selection is likely to lead to lower overt performance compared with those firms that admit difficult cases, because the latter develop steeper learning curves. That is, difficult cases enable greate...
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作者：Baumann, Oliver; Siggelkow, Nicolaj
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Organizations are frequently faced with high levels of complexity. While the importance of search for dealing with complex systems is widely acknowledged, how organizations should structure their search processes remains largely unexplored. This paper starts to address basic questions: How much of the entire system, and thus complexity, should be taken into consideration at any given time during a search process? Should a problem solver pursue an integrated search and be concerned with the who...
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作者：Davis, Lee N.; Davis, Jerome D.; Hoisl, Karin
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Dalhousie University; University of Munich
摘要：This paper studies the contextual factors that influence whether invention occurs during work time or leisure time. Leisure time invention, a potentially important but thus far largely unexplored source of employee creativity, refers to invention where the main underlying idea occurs while the employee is away from the workplace. We build on existing theory in the fields of organizational creativity and knowledge recombination, especially work relating context to creativity. The paper's main t...
