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作者：Lungeanu, Razvan; Zajac, Edward J.
作者单位：Northeastern University; Northwestern University
摘要：This study addresses the oft-debated questions of whether, when, and how corporate board members help shape firm strategy by advancing a new perspective on heterogeneous director influence that introduces the notion of the deep/broad director. Specifically, we take a sociocognitive and sociopolitical perspective on governance to suggest that deep/broad new outside directors, whose expertise results from a blend of depth and breadth of experience, will have an outsized influence in shaping firm...
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作者：Feldman, Maryann P.; Ozcan, Serden; Reichstein, Toke
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Past research has shown that founders bring important capabilities and resources from their prior employment into their new firms and that these intergenerational transfers influence the performance of these ventures. However, we know little about whether organizational practices also transfer from parents to spawns, and if so, what types of practices are transferred? Using a combination of survey and registrar data and through a detailed identification strategy, we examine these two previousl...
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作者：Rahmandad, Hazhir; Vakili, Keyvan
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of London; London Business School
摘要：Prior studies of academic science have largely focused on researchers in life sciences or engineering. However, while academic researchers often work under similar institutions, norms, and incentives, they vary greatly in how they organize their research efforts across different scientific domains. This heterogeneity, in turn, has important implications for innovation policy, the relationship between industry and academia, the scientific labor market, and the perceived deficit in the relevance...
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作者：Demetry, Daphne
作者单位：McGill University
摘要：With perceptions of authenticity offering contemporary organizations a key competitive advantage in the marketplace, a growing body of research has investigated authenticity work: the diverse ways in which organizational actors fabricate authenticity claims for their audience members. However, claiming authenticity is a challenging and problematic task, because organizations must weigh how much authenticity they can safely project without incurring backfire. This is further complicated by cons...
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作者：Cristea, Ioana C.; Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：Research shows that displaying face time-being observed by others at work-leads to many positive outcomes for employees. Drawing on this prior work, we argue that face time helps employees to receive better work and leads to career advancement because it is a strong signal of their commitment to their job, their team, and their organization. But when employees are geographically distributed from managers who control the assignment of work, they are often unable to display face time. To compens...
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作者：Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; Harvard University
摘要：We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high-purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and clarity have systematically highe...
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作者：Lawrence, Megan
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：In aiming to understand why teams differ in their ability to adapt to new contexts, I explore the extent to which prior experience with a previous practice impacts the ability to properly execute a new organizational practice. I generate predictions by integrating the organizational learning and path dependency literatures. To test my predictions, I use internal data from 294 stores of a large retail chain that implemented a new restocking process in its stores. Initial findings show that, on ...
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作者：Waisberg, Isaac; Nelson, Andrew
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Oregon
摘要：A large literature addresses the practices and challenges surrounding knowledge reuse within organizations. Yet organizations frequently attempt to reuse knowledge from outside their boundaries, which may be even more challenging. The practice is so prevalent that an entire industry-the consulting industry-has developed to support it. Unfortunately, we understand little about how knowledge embedded in one organization is used to intervene in another and about what challenges follow from the at...
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作者：Mellewigt, Thomas; Hoetker, Glenn; Luetkewitte, Martina
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; University of Melbourne
摘要：Past research on how opportunism in buyer-supplier relationships can be mitigated remains incomplete and often contradictory. Applying recent advances in qualitative comparative analysis to a sample of 137 buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that there are multiple equifinal pathways to high and low opportunism. In general, our study shows that it is easier to avoid high opportunism than to consistently achieve low opportunism. On this basis, we offer new in...
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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Although extant literature has long argued that firm embeddedness within knowledge networks increases innovation, we know much less about how interactions across multiple knowledge networks jointly influence learning and innovation outcomes within firms. This paper contributes to our understanding of global innovation in multinational corporations (MNCs) by exploring how competing tensions across parent, host-country, and third-country knowledge networks in terms of knowledge domain diversity ...
