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作者：Jansen, Justin J. P.; Tempelaar, Michiel P.; van den Bosch, Frans A. J.; Volberda, Henk W.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Prior studies have emphasized that structural attributes are crucial to simultaneously pursuing exploration and exploitation, yet our understanding of antecedents of ambidexterity is still limited. Structural differentiation can help ambidextrous organizations to maintain multiple inconsistent and conflicting demands; however, differentiated exploratory and exploitative activities need to be mobilized, coordinated, integrated, and applied. Based on this idea, we delineate formal and informal s...
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作者：Nonaka, Ikujiro; von Krogh, Georg
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Nonaka's paper [1994. A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation. Organ. Sci. 5(1) 14-37] contributed to the concepts of tacit knowledge and knowledge conversion in organization science. We present work that shaped the development of organizational knowledge creation theory and identify two premises upon which more than 15 years of extensive academic work has been conducted: ( 1) tacit and explicit knowledge can be conceptually distinguished along a continuum; ( 2) knowledge convers...
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作者：McFadyen, M. Ann; Semadeni, Matthew; Cannella, Albert A., Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Tulane University
摘要：Knowledge creation requires the combination and exchange of diverse and overlapping knowledge inputs as individuals interact with exchange partners to create new knowledge. In this study, we examine knowledge creation among university research scientists as a function of their professional (ego) networks-those others with whom they collaborate for the purpose of creating new knowledge. We propose that knowledge creation relies, in part, on two attributes of a researcher's professional network ...
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作者：Dencker, John C.; Gruber, Marc; Shah, Sonali K.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：New firms are endowed with knowledge and experience at birth through the human capital of their founder(s). Existing empirical research suggests that this pre-entry knowledge and experience will influence the firm's chances of survival; however, the mechanisms underlying this relationship have yet to be investigated. We seek to better understand and unpack this relationship. Specifically, we study the extent to which a founder's pre-entry knowledge of the business activity and pre-entry manage...
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作者：Starbuck, William H.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：Research provides some observations about learning from events that appear to be rare or quite unusual. All learning has uncertain consequences, but learning from rare events is especially problematic. Learners see many idiosyncrasies and exogenous interference, tendencies that suppress learning on an organizational scale. Rare events also rouse uncertainty and bring on reactions to uncertainty such as wishful thinking, reliance on prior beliefs, biased probabilities, a search for more data, c...
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作者：Bartel, Caroline A.; Garud, Raghu
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Sustaining innovation is a vital yet difficult task. Innovation requires the coordinated efforts of many actors to facilitate ( 1) the recombination of ideas to generate novelty, ( 2) real-time problem solving, and ( 3) linkages between present innovation efforts with past experiences and future aspirations. We propose that innovation narratives are cultural mechanisms that address these coordination requirements by enabling translation. Specifically, innovation narratives are powerful mechani...
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作者：Fanelli, Angelo; Misangyi, Vilmos F.; Tosi, Henry L.
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Bocconi University
摘要：Using a thematic text analysis of the initial letters to shareholders following a CEO succession event, we analyze whether CEO charismatic visions portrayed in this organizational discourse influence securities analysts' recommendations and forecasts. The results suggest that such projections of CEO charismatic visions are associated with the favorability of individual analyst recommendations and the uniformity of recommendations across analysts, but they also appear to be positively related t...
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作者：Knott, Anne Marie; Posen, Hart E.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：One of the key mechanisms of firms' strategic renewal is R&D, and a key driver of the intensity of R&D is industry context. A number of theories develop propositions linking industry factors to firm R&D behavior, but these theories lack consensus. To date, empirical tests have been unable to resolve the competing predictions because of lack of time-varying measures of technology. We create new measures for technology and then conduct a test of the competing theories. Our results indicate that ...
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作者：Puranam, Phanish; Singh, Harbir; Chaudhuri, Saikat
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Acquirers who buy small technology-based firms for their technological capabilities often discover that postmerger integration can destroy the very innovative capabilities that made the acquired organization attractive in the first place. Viewing structural integration as a mechanism to achieve coordination between acquirer and target organizations helps explain why structural integration may be necessary in technology acquisitions despite the costs of disruption this imposes, as well as the c...
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作者：Salvato, Carlo
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：In contrast to the prevailing interpretation of capabilities as collectives, this inductive study of product development in a leading design firm highlights the centrality of the myriad ordinary activities that may shape the evolution of capabilities. A detailed comparison of 90 diverse product development processes over a 15-year period shows, first, that mindful microactivities carried out by individuals in and around the organization and at all levels of the organizational hierarchy are cen...
