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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：This study explores whether employees who have access to social media are more likely than employees who do not to develop shared cognition-similar perceptions of what and whom coworkers know. It also uncovers the behaviors associated with social media that allow employees to develop such shared cognition about their co-workers' knowledge and social structures. I conducted a multimethodological, longitudinal field study of the use of one type of social media-a social networking site-by employe...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; New York University
摘要：While two-sided platforms (e.g., video game consoles) depend on complements (e.g., games) for their success, the success of complements is also influenced by platform-level dynamics. Research suggests that greater platform adoption benefits complements by providing more potential users, but this assumes that platform adopters are homogeneous. We build on extensive research exploring the heterogeneity between early and late platform adopters to identify counterintuitive dynamics for complements...
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作者：Steigenberger, Norbert; Wilhelm, Hendrik
作者单位：Jonkoping University; University of Cologne
摘要：Firms often need to acquire external financial resources to maintain and develop their business. To attract these resources, firms employ various substantive and rhetorical signals, such as publishing press releases, showcasing prototypes of new products, and hiring renowned managers. However, despite the relevance of signals, we still know little about how they interact-whether they strengthen, weaken, or neutralize one another-in attracting resources. Traditional signaling theory downplays t...
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作者：Luger, Johannes; Raisch, Sebastian; Schimmer, Markus
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Geneva; University of St Gallen
摘要：We study the evolution of firms' exploration-exploitation allocations and their long-term performance outcomes. Extending current ambidexterity theory, we suggest that not only firms pursuing one-sided exploration or exploitation orientations show self-reinforcing tendencies but also ambidextrous firms adopting balanced exploration-exploitation orientations. Integrating formal modeling arguments, we further propose that reinforcing ambidexterity can be good or bad for firms' long-term performa...
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作者：Mazmanian, Melissa; Beckman, Christine M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Numbers such as output controls drive action in organizations, yet we know little about how key numbers are created and take on authority. Using qualitative data from multiple properties managed by a hotel management firm, we find that individuals develop and then become committed to achieving budget goals through a ritual of quantification. The budget numbers serve as output controls for the properties and employees. We find that the strength of the budget number as an undisputed future proje...
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作者：Keum, Dongil D.; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：Columbia University; New York University
摘要：This study explores the determinants of organizational aspirations, proposing that aspirations play dual roles that create important tension for managers. On one hand, aspirations serve an evaluative role as a benchmark for assessing performance. On the other, they have an allocative role in influencing the acquisition of limited resources. Our theory suggests that managers strategically adapt organizational aspirations to balance the tension between the two concerns. They set more aggressive ...
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作者：Sevcenko, Victoria; Ethiraj, Sendil
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：How do firms benefit from employees with transferable skills? The prevailing view is that labor market frictions that impede employee mobility or strategies that constrain skill transferability are the primary instruments for firms to appropriate value from human capital. The empirical evidence, however, suggests that employees continue to be mobile, and firms pay premiums to attract and retain employees with transferable skills. To reconcile theory with data, we use data from the mutual fund ...
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作者：Valente, Mike; Oliver, Christine
作者单位：York University - Canada
摘要：In response to recent calls for theory to predict and explain the phenomenon of meta-organizations, we set out to identify the causes of their formation. Using a cross-case comparison of multiple case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, where nine focal firms varied in their response to the complexities of sustainability, we examined how and why some firms approached sustainability through a meta-organization while others did not. Our findings show that meta-organizations may be an effective means ...
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作者：Hunt, Richard A.; Hayward, Mathew L. A.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Monash University
摘要：At small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), cash-strapped employees frequently request loans from employers because they cannot obtain money on reasonable terms elsewhere for exigent needs. In turn, employers decide whether to lend the money through formal (i.e., written, contractual) loans or more informal off-the-book (OTB) loans. Our exploration of this understudied source of credit unearths important questions about the reasons employers lend money to employees, the manner in which they ...
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作者：Liang, Hao; Marquis, Christopher; Renneboog, Luc; Sun, Sunny Li
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Singapore Management University; Cornell University; Tilburg University; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
摘要：We examine how international variation in corporate future-oriented behavior, such as corporate social responsibility and research and development investment, could partially stem from characteristics of the languages spoken at firms. We develop a future-time framing perspective rooted in the literatures on organizational categorization and framing. Our theory and hypotheses focus on how companies with working languages that obligatorily separate the future tense and the present tense engage l...
