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作者：Levinthal, Daniel A.; Rerup, Claus
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Frankfurt School Finance & Management
摘要：In the Carnegie School tradition of experiential learning, learning processes are driven by the encoding of performance outcomes as a success or failure relative to a goal. We expand this line of inquiry by highlighting how conflicting and thus ambiguous outcomes across multiple goals make interpretation a critical aspect of organizational learning processes. In early work in the Carnegie tradition, interpretation played a role in the demarcation between what constituted success or failure on ...
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作者：Safadi, Hani; Johnson, Steven L.; Faraj, Samer
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Virginia; McGill University
摘要：Where do valuable contributions originate from in online innovation communities? Prior research provides conflicting answers. One view, consistent with a community of practice perspective, is that valued knowledge contributions are primarily provided by central participants at the core of a community. In contrast, other research-including work adopting an open innovation perspective-predicts that valuable ideas primarily emerge from peripheral participants, those at the margins of a field of k...
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作者：Wu, Lynn; Kane, Gerald C.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Boston College
摘要：Using three years' data from more than 1,000 employees at a large professional services firm, we find that adopting an expertise search tool improves employee work performance in billable revenue, which results from improvements in network connections and information diversity. More importantly, we also find that adoption does not benefit all employees equally. Two types of employees benefit more from adoption of digital collaboration tools than others. First, junior employees and women benefi...
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Sakhartov, Arkadiy, V
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This study develops a theory of due diligence in corporate acquisitions. Using a formal model, the study situates due diligence in the context of economies of scope, which are often sought by acquiring organizations that have incomplete information about such economies. Relatedness, the key determinant of economies of scope, and ambiguity, the key determinant of incomplete information, are used to derive the optimal due diligence effort and the returns to an acquiring organization that result ...
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作者：Chatterji, Aaron K.; Luo, Jiao; Seamans, Robert C.
作者单位：Duke University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We connect two distinct streams of research on categories to study the role of within-category typicality in the context of legitimacy shocks. We argue that, following a legitimacy shock, member organizations of the tainted, focal category suffer equally, irrespective of their typicality. However, only the typical members of the newly favored, oppositional category benefit. Therefore, the effects of legitimacy shocks are asymmetrically influenced by typicality. We argue this pattern is the res...
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作者：Odziemkowska, Kate; Dorobantu, Sinziana
作者单位：Rice University; New York University
摘要：Despite growing engagements between firms and nonmarket stakeholders-such as local communities and nongovernmental organizations-research has yet to examine the emergence of formal contracts between them. Given that a very large number of such contracts are theoretically possible but only a small number exist, we seek to understand what factors explain the use of contracts to govern some relationships between firms and nonmarket stakeholders but not others. We draw on transaction cost economic...
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作者：Miao, Yuzhe; Salomon, Robert M.; Song, Jaeyong
作者单位：Beijing University of Technology; New York University; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：This paper investigates whether firms from developing countries that lag the global technological frontier can learn from technologically successful peers as a means of closing the technological gap with leaders from developed countries. We define technologically successful peers as those that hail from similar home countries, operate in the same industry, and have achieved a certain degree of success in closing the gap with the global technological frontier. We argue that technologically succ...
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作者：Subramanian, Hemang; Mitra, Sabyasachi; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Boston College
摘要：Business models increasingly depend on inputs from outside traditional organizational boundaries. For example, platforms that generate revenue from advertising, subscription, or referral fees often rely on user-generated content (UGC). But there is considerable uncertainty on how UGC creates value-and who benefits from it-because voluntary user contributions cannot be mandated or contracted or its quality assured through service-level agreements. In fact, high valuations of these platform firm...
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作者：Ching, Kenny; Forti, Enrico; Rawley, Evan
作者单位：Worcester Polytechnic Institute; University of London; University College London; Manhattan University; Columbia University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Team production is ubiquitous in the economy, but managing teams effectively remains a challenge for many organizations. This paper studies how familiarity among teammates influences the performance of specialist teams, relative to nonspecialist teams. Applying theories of team production to contexts where team members coordinate interdependent activities extemporaneously, we develop predictions about factors that shift the marginal returns to specialization along two dimensions of familiarity...
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作者：Kellogg, Katherine C.; Myers, Jenna E.; Gainer, Lindsay; Singer, Sara J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Adventist Health Services; AdventHealth; Mass General Brigham; Stanford University
摘要：We explore how members of a community of practice learn new tools and techniques when environmental shifts undermine existing expertise. In our 20-month comparative field study of medical assistants and patient-service representatives learning to use new digital technology in five primary care sites, we find that the traditional master-apprentice training model worked well when established practices were being conferred to trainees. When environmental change required introducing new tools and ...
