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作者：Hsieh, Chihmao; Lazzarini, Sergio Giovanetti; Nickerson, Jackson A.; Laurini, Marcio
作者单位：University of Missouri System; Missouri University of Science & Technology; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：A firm often must ensure that products or services it produces match customer expectations. We define variability as any deviation in a production process yielding products or services whose attributes differ from the firm's stated target specifications. Firms pursuing products marked by low variability are more subject to maladaptation costs if production processes are not adjusted to avoid nonconformities. Furthermore, such adjustments often require idiosyncratic investments (e. g., dedicate...
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作者：Vissa, Balagopal; Greve, Henrich R.; Chen, Wei-Ru
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian. firms affiliated with business groups and unaffiliated. firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated. firms, business group-affiliated (BG-affiliated) firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration levels and more likely to respond to low performance in the market domain...
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作者：Parker, Simon C.; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Antwerp
摘要：This paper develops a framework for estimating multidimensional fit. In the context of contingency thinking and the resource-based view of the firm, there is a clear need for quantitative approaches that integrate fit-as-deviation, fit-as-moderation, and fit-as-system perspectives, implying that the impact on organizational performance of series of bivariate (mis) fits and bundles of multiple (mis) fits are estimated in an integrated fashion. Our approach offers opportunities to do precisely t...
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作者：Lichtenthaler, Ulrich; Ernst, Holger; Hoegl, Martin
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：Employee attitudes with regard to the usefulness of external knowledge may influence a firm's extent of inter-organizational knowledge transactions. Prior research has focused on not-invented-here (NIH) tendencies, which refer to negative attitudes in organizations toward the acquisition of knowledge from external sources. In this research, we develop the concept of not-sold-here (NSH) tendencies, which result from protective attitudes in firms toward the external exploitation of knowledge, fo...
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作者：Benner, Mary J.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A large body of research has explored the factors that impede established firms' responses to radical technological changes. While it is widely acknowledged that managers face pressures from financial markets to choose strategies that maximize shareholder value, little work in the technological change literature has considered the possible influences of public equity markets and the securities analysts who mediate them on incumbent firms challenged with technological change. In this paper, I b...
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作者：O'Leary, Michael Boyer; Mortensen, Mark
作者单位：Georgetown University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Research regarding geographically dispersed teams (GDTs) is increasingly common and has yielded many insights regarding the effects of spatio-temporal and socio-demographic factors on GDT functioning and performance. Largely missing, however, is research on the effects of the basic geographic configuration of GDTs. In this study, we explore the impact of GDT configuration (i.e., the relative number of team members at different sites, independent of the characteristics of those members or the s...
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作者：Berk, Ales; Kase, Robert
作者单位：University of Ljubljana
摘要：This paper refers to the conceptualizations of strategic flexibility, real options, and human resource (HR) options to build a model for valuing future-oriented and organizational. flexibility-enhancing aspects of training. By adopting an indirect approach to measuring HR options by valuing particular investment projects in which human capital is involved, we satisfy the conditions for applying the Black-Scholes option valuation model and avoid the problematic measurement of the stand-alone va...
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作者：Gittell, Jody Hoffer; Seidner, Rob; Wimbush, Julian
作者单位：Brandeis University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：In this paper we explore a causal mechanism through which high-performance work systems contribute to performance outcomes. We propose that high-performance work systems can improve organizational performance by strengthening relationships among employees who perform distinct functions, a pathway that is expected to be particularly important in settings characterized by highly interdependent work. In a nine-hospital study of patient care, we identify high-performance work practices that positi...
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作者：Dushnitsky, Gary
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur's decision to pursue either disclosure-where investors inspect the invention-or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)-where an invention's value is inferred from the entrepreneur's willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention's success. Using a parsimonious model, we highlight the role of optimism and demonstrate that it only affe...
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作者：Gino, Francesca; Pierce, Lamar
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This paper investigates whether an employee's perception of customer wealth affects his likelihood of engaging in illegal behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions testing market, where employees have the opportunity to illegally help customers by passing vehicles that would otherwise fail emissions tests. We find that for a significant number of inspect...
