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作者：Godart, Frederic C.; Galunic, Charles
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：When organizations strategically adopt cultural elements-such as a name, a color, or a style-to create their products, they make crucial choices that position them in markets vis-` a-vis competitors, audiences, and other stakeholders. However, although it is well understood how one specific cultural element gets adopted by actors and diffuses, it is not yet clear how elements fare when considered within an industry choice-set of elements. Their popularity depends on idiosyncratic features (suc...
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作者：Baker, Bradford; Derfler-Rozin, Rellie; Pitesa, Marko; Johnson, Michael
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Singapore Management University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We develop and test a model that extends the understanding of how people react to news of organizational unethical behavior and how such reactions impact stock performance. We do so by taking into account the interplay between the features of specific unethical acts and the features of the organizational context within which unethical acts occur. We propose a two-stage model in which the first stage predicts that unethical acts that benefit the organization are judged less harshly than are une...
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作者：Zhang, Letian
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Although it is well known that team performance influences strategic decision making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers' performance pressure and therefore, leads to more managerial bias in the subsequent decisions. I find strong evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained data set from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team p...
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作者：Byun, Heejung; Raffiee, Joseph; Ganco, Martin
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Southern California; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We examine how a discontinuous increase in the value of an employee's relational capital influences the employee's mobility and entrepreneurship decisions in professional and business service contexts. Drawing on the unfolding model of voluntary turnover, we develop a theory proposing that positive shocks to external relational capital will catalyze employees to consider alternative employment options, thereby increasing the probability of exit. We further maintain that exit decisions in respo...
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作者：Eapen, Alex; Krishnan, Rekha
作者单位：Australian National University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that capability theories of firm boundaries are fundamentally intertwined with contractual arguments. A productive use of capability arguments, therefore, is when they are joined with contractual ones in an integrated theory of the firm. However, contractual and capability scholars have traditionally held incommensurable views on the relevance of opportunism safeguards for a theory of the firm. Sponsors of the contractual view treat opportunism safeg...
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作者：Ossenbrink, Jan; Hoppmann, Joern; Hoffmann, Volker H.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Stanford University; Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要：According to the literature on ambidexterity, organizations can use structural or contextual approaches to simultaneously explore novel opportunities and exploit existing ones. So far, however, we know very little about what induces organizations to focus on structural versus contextual ambidexterity, or how they combine the two approaches to maximize organizational learning. To shed more light on these questions, we investigate how the environment shapes a firm's use of structural and context...
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作者：Arjalies, Diane-Laure; Durand, Rodolphe
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：Product categories are more than classification devices that organize markets; when reflecting market actors' purposes, they are also judgment devices. Taking stock of the literature on product categories and drawing on the distinction between the faculties of knowing and judging, we elaborate a framework that accounts for how and why market actors include or exclude normative attributes in a product category definition. Based on a field study of the development of socially responsible investm...
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作者：Bird, Yanhua; Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W.
作者单位：Harvard University; University of California System; University of California San Francisco
摘要：In response to media exposes and activist group pressure to eliminate exploitive working conditions, multinational companies have pushed their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and improve their labor practices to meet the standards set forth in these codes. Yet little is known about the extent to which suppliers are improving their labor practices to conform to codes of conduct, especially in organizations in which legitimacy structures like codes compete with productivity-driving inc...
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作者：Feldman, Elana; Kahn, William
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Boston University
摘要：Developmental relationships offer rich opportunities for personal growth, which enables people to operate effectively in complex work environments. Although it is now widely recognized that proteges typically have more than one developmental relationship simultaneously, few researchers have considered the ways in which developmental networks-comprising a protege's multiple developers-foster growth. We therefore know little about how proteges grow through their engagement in several concurrent ...
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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Greve, Henrich R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：In this study, we examine how multiple and sometimes conflicting goals are prioritized and pursued in organizations. Theories of coalitions and political behavior address prioritization among goals and changes in goal emphasis over time but cannot accurately predict the behavior of organizations that pursue conflicting goals. By linking theories of performance feedback theory and variable risk preferences, we show that performance shortfalls relative to aspirations on multiple goals can trigge...
