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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Zaheer, Akbar; Hernandez, Exequiel
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：plentiful research suggests that embeddedness in alliance networks influences firms' innovativeness. This research, however, has mostly overlooked the fact that interorganizational ties are themselves embedded within larger institutional contexts that can shape the effects of networks on organizational outcomes. We address this gap in the literature by arguing that national institutions affect the extent to which specific network positions, such as brokerage, influence innovation. We explore t...
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作者：Wang, Xiaoqing; Butler, Brian S.; Ren, Yuqing
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The dominant narrative of the Internet has been one of unconstrained growth, abundance, and plenitude. It is in this context that new forms of organizing, such as online groups, have emerged. However, the same factors that underlie the utopian narrative of Internet life also give rise to numerous online groups, many of which fail to attract participants or to provide significant value. This suggests that despite the potential transformative nature of modern information technology, issues of sc...
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作者：Kapoor, Rahul
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Although the stylized model of industry evolution suggests that firms transform from vertical integration to specialization over time, many industries still exhibit a continued persistence of integrated firms. In exploring this puzzle, I draw on detailed firm-level data from the semiconductor industry to analyze how integrated incumbents, beyond shifting to the specialized mode, reconfigured in the face of industry's vertical disintegration so as to coexist with the specialized firms. I propos...
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作者：Lee, Jeongsik Jay
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：I examine the problem of relational hazards between repeat exchange partners and the contingent roles of trade uncertainty and future exchange prospects in moderating the potentially conflicting effects of past exchanges on these hazards, thereby facilitating or restraining the formation of relational embeddedness. On the data of advisory relationships in U. S. mergers and acquisitions from 1981 to 2004, I find that firms that repeatedly hire the same investment banks as financial advisors ten...
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作者：Puay Khoon Toh; Kim, Taekyu
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Conventional wisdom suggests that when a firm faces technological uncertainty, it responds by becoming less technologically specialized so as to remain adaptable to subsequent resolution of this uncertainty. We adopt a competition-based view of technological uncertainty to identify an opposite effect in competitive settings: the firm may instead become more specialized when faced with greater technological uncertainty so as to focus on advancing its technologies against competition and influen...
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作者：Anand, Vikas; Joshi, Mahendra; O'Leary-Kelly, Anne M.
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Grand Valley State University
摘要：We argue that a firm forms three distinct relationships with strategic groups-identification, disidentification, and ambivalent identification. Firms can form any of these relationships with multiple strategic groups, and the set of these relationships comprises a firm's strategic group configuration (SGC). We propose that the nature of a firm's identity influences the characteristics of its SGC. We demonstrate the implications of our model by exploring how a firm's strategic group configurati...
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作者：Lien, Lasse B.; Klein, Peter G.
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：The survivor principle holds that the competitive process weeds out inefficient firms, so that hypotheses about efficient behavior can be tested by observing what firms actually do. This principle underlies a large body of empirical work in strategy, economics, and management. But do competitive markets really select for efficient behavior? Is the survivor principle reliable? We evaluate the survivor principle in the context of corporate diversification, asking if survivor-based measures of in...
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作者：Barbulescu, Roxana; Bidwell, Matthew
作者单位：McGill University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper examines differences in the jobs for which men and women apply in order to better understand gender segregation in managerial jobs. We develop and test an integrative theory of why women might apply to different jobs than men. We note that constraints based on gender role socialization may affect three determinants of job applications: how individuals evaluate the rewards provided by different jobs, whether they identify with those jobs, and whether they believe that their applicati...
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作者：Loyd, Denise Lewin; Wang, Cynthia S.; Phillips, Katherine W.; Lount, Robert B., Jr.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Columbia University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：A purported downside of social category diversity is decreased relationship focus (i.e., one's focus on establishing a positive social bond with a coworker). However, we argue that this lack of relationship focus serves as a central mechanism that improves information processing even prior to interaction and, ultimately, decision-making performance in diverse settings. We introduce the construct of premeeting elaboration (i.e., the extent to which individuals consider their own and others' per...
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作者：Maula, Markku V. J.; Keil, Thomas; Zahra, Shaker A.
作者单位：Aalto University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Technological discontinuities pose serious challenges to top managers' attention. These discontinuities, which often JL occur at the fringes of an industry, are usually driven by innovative and (often) venture capital-backed start-ups creating new products and transforming existing industries in ways that are difficult for incumbent managers to understand against the backdrop of their existing cognitive schemata. However, failing to appreciate and embrace successful technological discontinuiti...
