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作者：Katz, Adi; Te'eni, Dov
作者单位：Sami Shamoon College of Engineering
摘要：Computer-mediated collaboration, a rapidly expanding form of work, introduces unique opportunities but problems as well. One of these problems is the higher risk of misunderstandings. Current communication theories suggest that misunderstanding may be reduced by contextualization, i.e., providing contextual information to explain a core message. However, we hypothesize that contextualization is beneficial in some situations but not in others. Treating contextualization as a form of adaptive be...
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作者：Sullivan, Bilian Ni; Haunschild, Pamela; Page, Karen
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Wyoming
摘要：In this study, we examine the effects of illegal/unethical acts on interfirm networks. We hypothesize that the quality of network partners will decline and overall network structure will change after a firm commits an unethical act. More specifically, we posit that the decline in partner quality is primarily driven by higher quality firms leaving the network, and the focal firm being forced to replace them with lower quality ones. We also propose that partner prominence and network cohesion wi...
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作者：Boland, Richard J., Jr.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Yoo, Youngjin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Changes in the technologies of representation in a heterogeneous, distributed sociotechnical system, such as a large construction project, can instigate a complex pattern of innovations in technologies, practices, structures, and strategies. We studied the adoption of digital three-dimensional (3-D) representations in the building projects of the architect Frank O. Gehry, and observed that multiple, heterogeneous firms in those projects produced diverse innovations, each of which created a wak...
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作者：Espinosa, J. Alberto; Slaughter, Sandra A.; Kraut, Robert E.; Herbsleb, James D.
作者单位：American University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：While prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has different types of complexity. In this paper, we theorize how task and team familiarity interact with task and team coordination complexity to influence team performance. We posit that task familiarity is more beneficial with more complex tasks (i.e., tasks that are larger or with more complex structures) and tha...
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作者：Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi
摘要：Cyert and March's A Behavioral Theory of the Firm has been acknowledged as one of the most fundamental pillars on which evolutionary theorizing in economics is built. Nelson and Winter's 1982 book is pervaded by the philosophy and concepts previously developed by Cyert, March, and Simon. Behavioral notions, such as bounded rationality are also at the heart of economic theories of institutions such as transaction costs economics. In this paper, after briefly reviewing the basic concepts of evol...
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作者：Fleming, Lee; Waguespack, David M.
作者单位：Harvard University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：W hat types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then integrate their communities in order to mobilize volunteers and avoid the ever-present danger of forking and batkanization. This is enabled by two correlated but distinct social positions: social brokerage and bounda...
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作者：Zott, Christoph; Amit, Raphael
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：W e focus on the design of an organization's set of boundary-spanning transactions-business model design-and ask how business model design affects the performance of entrepreneurial firms. By extending and integrating theoretical perspectives that inform the study of boundary - spanning organization design, we propose hypotheses about the impact of efficiency-centered and novelty-centered business model design on the performance of entrepreneurial firms. To test these hypotheses, we developed ...
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作者：Gupta, Anil K.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Taylor, M. Susan
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this introductory article for the Special Issue on Innovation At and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis, we review major streams of extant research on innovation to establish a clear role for multilevel theory and research within this domain. We then examine and illustrate two fundamental and complementary approaches for investigating multilevel linkages-bottom-up emergent processes and top-down processes. In a brief commentary on each paper in the special issue, we overview the conceptual ...
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作者：Somaya, Deepak; Williamson, Ian O.; Zhang, Xiaomeng
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University
摘要：Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV), this paper examines how the combination or bundling of resources influences firm-patenting performance. We hypothesize that firm-patenting output depends not only on research and development (R&D) resources, but also on the patent law expertise combined with R&D inside the firm. We predict that the specialization of this in-house legal resource to R&D enables firms to identify patentable inventions more effectively and to convert them into patents. We ...
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作者：Augier, Mie; Prietula, Michael
作者单位：Stanford University; Emory University
摘要：Richard Cyert and James March's (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (ABTOF) is one of the most influential works in organization science. An important element of that work was a computational model of a duopoly, which was arguably the first computational model that instantiated organizational constructs within a substantial theoretical framework. We suggest that the academic environment within which this theory and model grew was instrumental in its emergence. Furthermore, an examination of...
