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作者：Jacobides, Michael G.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This paper examines how Greece nearly went to war with Turkey in 1996 over the uninhabited islets of Imia, to the detriment of the Greek decision makers involved. This escalation was driven by fragmented, piecemeal reactions resulting from the organizational structure of the Greek administration, which shaped identities, defined repertoires of action, sustained routines, and filtered and interpreted information. The division of labor inevitably imposed local responses that were not well calibr...
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作者：Winter, Sidney G.; Cattani, Gino; Dorsch, Alex
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; New York University
摘要：This study presents a new model of search on a rugged landscape, which employs modeling techniques from fractal geometry rather than the now-familiar NK-modeling technique. In our simulations, firms search locally in a two-dimensional fitness landscape, choosing moves in a way that responds both to local payoff considerations and to a more global sense of opportunity represented by a firm-specific preferred direction. The latter concept provides a simple device for introducing cognitive or mot...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：T his paper considers how the information enabled by information technology (IT) is implicated in organizational action. It begins by proposing that the relationship between technology appropriations and an organization's informal advice networks is one useful way to understand how the information that is created, modified, transmitted, and stored through the use of IT can lead to organizational change. I then present the findings of an ethnographic study of the implementation and use of a new...
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作者：Briscoe, Forrest
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：T his paper develops a model of how organizations influence the temporal flexibility of professional service workers. The model starts by identifying a key source of temporal inflexibility for these workers: an inability to hand clients off among one other. Hand-offs are impeded by high levels of client-to-worker specificity, stemming from three common characteristics of professional service work. The organizational processes that reduce that specificity, and therefore facilitate hand-offs, fu...
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作者：Tallman, Stephen; Phene, Anupama
作者单位：University of Richmond; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：T his paper examines knowledge flows within and across geographic boundaries of clusters and nations in the biotechnology industry. We hypothesize that these flows are characterized by various factors relating to the knowledge itself and by firm innovativeness and the presence of prior knowledge flows at the firm level. Surprisingly, our findings suggest that geographic proximity does not matter in some instances, while in others it has a decidedly nonlinear effect opposite to that hypothesize...
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作者：Tschang, F. Ted
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：This paper investigates the forces that influence creativity in the video games industry. We adopt a qualitative approach to guide the development of grounded theory across multiple levels of analysis, including the industry (consisting of multiple actors), organizational, and individual creator levels. Our Study shows that business and production interests currently drive the rationalization of video game production. There is a maturing trend, with product designs becoming well established as...
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作者：Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Scientific progress is driven by innovation-which serves to produce a diversity of ideas-and imitation through a social network-which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this process, in which the agents in the population are heterogeneous in their abilities to innovate and imitate. The model incorporates three primary forces: the discovery of new ideas, the observation and adoption of these ideas, and the endogenous development of net...
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作者：Howard-Grenville, Jennifer A.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：This paper considers how issue sellers advance new issues within an organization over time, and how they gain competence at doing so. Using ethnographic, archival, and interview data spanning a six-year period, it describes the moves made by members of a high-tech manufacturer to introduce environmental considerations into the design of new manufacturing processes. A significant shift occurred in the pattern of moves used over time, and explanations for the shift are found in two accompanying ...
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作者：Madsen, Tammy L.; Walker, Gordon
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：This paper examines how two general cohorts of firms, entrants and incumbents, differ in their competitive intensity following price and entry deregulation in the trucking industry from 1980 to 1993. The results demonstrate that the competitive strength associated with entrants' experience is reduced as they grow. However, organizational size dampens the positive effect of competitive experience on the exit rate more slowly for incumbents that were large at deregulation than it does for entran...
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作者：Fleming, Lee; King, Charles, III; Juda, Adam I.
作者单位：Harvard University; Alphabet Inc.; Google Incorporated
摘要：Small-world networks have attracted much theoretical attention and are widely thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent coauthorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on innovation. Our analysis reveals the existence of regional small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using stati...
