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作者：Foss, NJ
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such internal hybrids, particularly in their radical forms, are inherently hard to successfully design and implement because of a fundamental incentive problem of establishing credible managerial commitments to not intervene in delegated decision making. This theme is developed and illustrated, using the case of...
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作者：Higgins, MC; Gulati, R
作者单位：Harvard University; Northwestern University
摘要：The initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most critical events in the lifetime of a young firm. Prior research has shown that firms tend to have successful IPOs if they go public with the endorsement of a prestigious lead underwriter. This paper examines the antecedents to receiving endorsement by a prestigious underwriter and links this to the experience base of a firm's upper echelon. We theorize that the amount and type of upper echelon experience serve as important symbols of a young...
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作者：Carson, SJ; Madhok, A; Varman, R; John, G
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kanpur; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：It is generally assumed that improved outcomes accompany the use of trust as a governance mechanism in an interfirm. relationship. Briefly, trust is a social lubricant that reduces the friction costs of existing trade and/or serves to increase the scope of trade. In contrast to this universalistic view, we posit that the performance of trust-based governance is contingent on the ability of trading partners to read each other and learn about counterpart behavior. These information-processing ab...
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作者：Beyer, JM; Hannah, DR
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：A qualitative, longitudinal study of two groups of experienced professionals beginning work in a research organization provided insights into how newcomers with work experience adjust to and become assimilated into new jobs and work settings. Multiple methods were used to collect data on the newcomers' work experiences before and after assuming their new jobs. Repeated interviews with them during their first six months in their new jobs revealed that their past experience affected their assimi...
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作者：Yiu, D; Makino, S
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：The study of foreign entry-mode choice has been based almost exclusively on transaction-cost theory. This theory focuses mainly on the impacts of firm- and industry-specific factors on the choice of entry mode, taking the effects of country-specific contextual factors as constant or less important. In contrast, the institutional perspective emphasizes the importance of the influence of both institutional forces embedded in national environments and decision makers' cognitive constraints on the...
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作者：Luo, YD
作者单位：University of Miami
摘要：This study examines environmental and organizational factors that influence a multinational enterprise's (MNE's) capability exploitation and building in a complex foreign market. Analysis of data from 167 MNE subunits in the People's Republic of China suggests that capability exploitation and capability building are inversely associated with environmental complexity and industrial uncertainty. Business cultural specificity impedes capability exploitation but not capability building. While capa...
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作者：Hansen, MT
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper introduces the concept of knowledge networks to explain why some business units are able to benefit from knowledge residing in other parts of the company while others are not, The core premise of this concept is that a proper understanding of effective interunit knowledge sharing in a multiunit firm requires a joint consideration of relatedness in knowledge content among business units and the network of lateral interunit relations that enables task units to access related knowledge...
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作者：Elvira, MM; Graham, ME
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Clarkson University
摘要：Drawing on neoclassical economic, internal labor market, and devaluation theories, we examine how the sex composition of jobs and the sex of individual workers affect earnings, depending upon the formalization of the pay type. Using personnel data for over 8,000 employees, we confirm the existence of a negative relationship between earnings and the proportion female in a job. We also find that for less-formalized pay types (cash incentive bonuses), sex-composition and individual-sex effects ar...
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作者：Carlile, PR
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study explores the premise that knowledge in new product development proves both a barrier to and a source of innovation. To understand the problematic nature of knowledge and the boundaries that result, an ethnographic study was used to understand how knowledge is structured differently across the four primary functions that are dependent on each other in the creation and production of a high-volume product. A pragmatic view of knowledge in practice is developed, describing knowledge as ...
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作者：Edmondson, AC
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper considers the role of team learning in organizational learning. I propose that a group-level perspective provides new insight into how organizational learning is impeded, hindering effective change in response to external pressures. In contrast to previous theoretical perspectives, I suggest that organizational learning is local, interpersonal, and variegated. I present data from an exploratory study of learning processes in 12 organizational teams engaged in activities ranging from...
