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作者：James, Barclay E.; Vaaler, Paul M.
作者单位：Universidad San Francisco de Quito; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research in management and related fields largely assumes that host-country state (state) ownership in investment projects raises risk for private coinvestors. We question that assumption in theorizing that minority state ownership may actually decrease investment risk in host countries where policy stability is low. Noncontrolling but still substantial state ownership signals to private coinvestors that states will maintain initial investment project terms yet limit interference in project ma...
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作者：Kluppel, Leonardo M.; Pierce, Lamar; Snyder, Jason A.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：We argue that organizations have deep roots in traumatic societal shocks that long preceded their founding. Drawing from the strategic management and social science literatures, we explain how traumatic shocks, such as conflict, disease, and natural disaster, can alter the institutional and cultural paths that determine future business environments. Historical shocks can help clarify the origin of cultural and institutional differences and help provide causal inference about why these differen...
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作者：Wry, Tyler; Zhao, Eric Yanfei
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：A key insight from research on hybrid organizing is that the joint pursuit of competing goals exposes an enterprise to potentially problematic tensions and trade-offs. Yet while studies have examined the former, the actual trade-offs that these organizations face-and how these might vary among enterprises and contexts-has been largely overlooked. Focusing on social enterprise, we address these gaps by (1) developing a framework that can be used to predict the compatibility of social outreach a...
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作者：Anteby, Michel; Chan, Curtis K.
作者单位：Boston University; Boston College
摘要：In the past few decades, the growth of surveillance has become a fixture of organizational life. Past scholarship has largely explained this growth as the result of traditional managerial demands for added control over workers, coupled with newly available cheap technology (such as closed-circuit televisions and body-worn cameras). We draw on the workplace resistance literature to complement these views by suggesting that workers can also drive such growth. More specifically, we show that work...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra; Balachandran, Chanchal
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Linkoping University
摘要：Using employer-employee matched data from Sweden between 2001 and 2008, we test hypotheses designed to assess the contingent nature of the relationship between wage dispersion and cross-firm mobility. Whereas past research has mostly established that dispersed wages increase interfirm mobility, we investigate the conditions under which pay variance might have the opposite effect, serving to retain workers. We propose that the effect of wage dispersion is contingent on organizational rank and t...
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作者：Zhao, Eric Yanfei; Ishihara, Masakazu; Jennings, P. Devereaux; Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; New York University; University of Alberta
摘要：In this paper, we develop an exemplar-based model of the emergence and evolution of proto-categories-new groupings of products that are only weakly entrenched but have the potential to become widely institutionalized-and examine how different positioning strategies of new entrants vis-a-vis the exemplar of a proto-category affect entrant performance. Empirically, we study the U.S. console video game industry where proto-categories frequently emerge and evolve around exemplary hit games. Analyz...
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作者：Bird, Miriam; Zellweger, Thomas
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Stockholm School of Economics; University of St Gallen
摘要：Integrating relational embeddedness arguments with Penrosean growth theory, we compare the growth of firms run by spousal entrepreneurs with firms run by sibling entrepreneurs. We theorize that trust, identification, and mutual obligations-the three facets of relational embeddedness-are more pronounced in spousal teams than in sibling teams, which provides spousal teams with advantages over sibling teams in generating firm growth. Probing a sample of all private firms in Sweden over a three-ye...
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作者：Levinthal, Daniel A.; Workiewicz, Maciej
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Organizations, as is true with social systems more generally, tend to be nearly, not fully, decomposable. However, analyses of nearly decomposable systems have tended to be at a single level of analysis and have generally neglected the vertical element of nearly decomposable systems. Critical to the notion of nearly decomposable systems is the property that the details of a particular subproblem may be encapsulated and captured by more aggregate parameters and that those subproblems interact i...
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作者：Mortensen, Mark; Haas, Martine R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Teams have long been defined by boundedness-a clear distinction between members and nonmembers. Yet as we argue in this perspective paper, the distinction between members and nonmembers is often blurred in today's teams, as a result of trends toward increasing team fluidity, overlap, and dispersion. These trends offer potential organizational benefits, but the resulting boundary blurring can undermine team effectiveness. Moreover, boundary blurring calls into question many of the basic assumpt...
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作者：Lanahan, Lauren; Armanios, Daniel
作者单位：University of Oregon; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：An implicit assumption in institutional theory is that more certifications improve a venture's likelihood for success. However, under certain conditions, we argue more certifications may be detrimental to the venture's performance. We advance this notion by examining both who is doing the certification and, in turn, what information is revealed to others through the certification. Our study advances two new constructs based on varying instances of follow-on certification: certification broaden...
