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作者：Ref, Ohad; Hu, Songcui; Milyavsky, Maxim; Feldman, Naomi E.; Shapira, Zur
作者单位：Ono Academic College; University of Arizona; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; New York University
摘要：Do firms take more or less risk in response to performance shortfalls? Although the behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) has been a guiding framework in this area, empirical evidence remains inconclusive. Moreover, empirical work has largely failed to distinguish between firms' motivation to take risks and their ability to do so. In this study, recognizing the distinct roles played by these two components, we specifically focus on risk -taking motivation. Drawing on March and Shapira's shiftin...
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作者：Kang, Ribuga; Kang, Jingoo
作者单位：Sogang University; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
摘要：This study examines how short selling influences board composition following a tradition in the strategy literature emphasizing the role of the external environment on firms' strategies. We predict that a short-selling-friendly environment has a negative effect on the number of outside directors, which is supported by our firm and year fixed effect difference-in-differences analysis. We find that the negative effect of a short-selling-friendly environment becomes stronger when outside director...
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作者：Ha, Jaekyung; Grodal, Stine; Sivan, Ezra W. Zuckerman
作者单位：emlyon business school; Northeastern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Why do first movers into a new industry sometimes gain an advantage simply because of the fact that they are perceived by audiences to be more authentic than second movers, whereas in other contexts such second movers are perceived as no less authentic than first movers? We theorize that this difference hinges on the amount of costly, risky legitimation work that entrants are perceived to have conducted in their efforts to establish that the new organizational form is reliable and acceptable. ...
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作者：Lane, Jacqueline N.; Lakhani, Karim R.; Fernandez, Roberto M.
作者单位：Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure levels, to meet the new skills needs. However, there is a risk that the new set of lucrative opportunities for employees in these tech-heavy fields will be biased against diverse demographic groups like women. Although much research ha...
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作者：Conti, Annamaria; Peukert, Christian; Roche, Maria
作者单位：IE University; University of Lausanne; Harvard University
摘要：We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform GitHub. In a matched sample of firms with and without GitHub activities, difference-in-differences models reveal a substantial increase in the likelihood of being funded after early stage startups engage with open source communities on...
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作者：Campero, Santiago; Kacperczyk, Aleksandra (Olenka)
作者单位：University of Toronto; Imperial College London; University of London; London Business School
摘要：The practice of recruiting job candidates sourced through social contacts (i.e., referrals) is pervasive in the labor market. One reason employers prefer to recruit through referrals is that these candidates often present resumes that are perceived to be a better fit for the role. Whereas existing research attributes this pattern to how individuals who make referrals (i.e., referrers) select individuals to refer, we propose a new mechanism: differences in self-presentation. We argue that refer...
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作者：Zhong, Yufei; Li, Huisi (Jessica)
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Competition is one of the defining features of organizational life. In this research, we identify a prevalent but overlooked type of competition-covert competition, which we define as behaviors with the intention to win (i.e., advancing one's interest/position while disregarding or hurting the other party's interest/position) that are unclear to or hidden from the other party. We argue that one's relative power in dyadic social relationships influences covert competition. Based on the theory o...
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作者：Grandy, Jake B.; Hiatt, Shon R.
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Southern California
摘要：Although scholarship has highlighted how stakeholders can influence business outcomes, few studies have examined how simultaneous, different tactics interact to impact firms. Critical to understanding this interaction is the radical flank effect, which asserts that the moderate and radical elements of social activist tactics can interact to either enhance or diminish a movement's ability to accomplish its goals. However, research is unclear about when and whether the radical flank effect enhan...
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作者：Gutierrez, Cedric; Sloof, Randolph; Crilly, Donal
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute; University of London; London Business School
摘要：Starting a business requires investing both money and time in the hope of future financial benefits. Because investments and potential gains happen over time, the way in which individuals value the future relative to the present-that is, their temporal preferences-may be an important driver behind the decision to become an entrepreneur. Whereas existing research examines temporal preferences for financial gains, we advance this research by theorizing about temporal preferences not only for mon...
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作者：Sassine, Jad Georges; Rahmandad, Hazhir
作者单位：Amazon.com; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：How does network structure impact the speed and reach of social contagions? The current view holds that random links facilitate simple contagion, but when agents require multiple reinforcements for complex adoption, clustered networks are better conduits of social influence. We show that in complex contagion, even low probabilities of adoption upon a single contact would activate an exponential contagion process that tilts the balance in favor of random networks. On the other hand, underapprec...
