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作者：Steensma, H. Kevin; Chari, Mukund; Heidl, Ralph
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Oregon
摘要：The patent assertion entity is a relatively new organizational form that neither invents nor commercializes products, but acts as a distributor of intellectual property rights between inventors and commercializing entities. We combine measurement and governance branches of transaction cost theory to compare the efficiency of market intermediation by patent assertion entities to that of bilateral licensing agreements, patent pools, and firm integration. We consider the level of complementarity ...
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作者：Mollick, Ethan
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Online communities play an increasingly important role in developing innovation. However, relatively little is known about the ways in which community affiliation influences how innovations and products generated in these communities are commercialized. By examining open source software (OSS) as an example of an innovation community and using both a quasi experiment and a longitudinal survey, I seek to shed light on this issue. In the quasi experiment, using the launch of the Apple App Store, ...
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作者：Deken, Fleur; Carlile, Paul R.; Berends, Hans; Lauche, Kristina
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Boston University; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：We investigate how multiple actors accomplish interdependent routine performances directed at novel intended outcomes and how this affects routine dynamics over time. We report findings from a longitudinal ethnographic study in an automotive company where actors developed a new business model around information-based services. By analyzing episodes involving interdependent routines, we develop a process model of routine work and dynamics across routines. We identify three types of routine work...
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作者：Sonenshein, Scott
作者单位：Rice University
摘要：Whereas scholars have historically treated routines and creativity as contradictory concepts, I adopt a dynamic ontology of routines that recasts them as a duality. Using data from a case study at a midsize retail organization, I theorize that artifacts, auxiliary routines, and external comparisons shape the enactment of routines that accomplish seemingly contradictory patterns of novelty and familiarity. From this analysis, I theorize two mechanisms-personalizing and depersonalizing-to explai...
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作者：Helfat, Constance E.; Campo-Rembado, Miguel A.
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：The analysis presented here provides a new explanation for why vertically integrated and specialized firms may continue to coexist as industries evolve, especially during time periods when conditions unequivocally favor lower cost specialized firms. In contrast to the common view that firms should match their organizational form to the prevailing nature of technology, vertically integrated firms may rationally choose to stay integrated and bear the sunk costs of developing integrative capabili...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra; Marx, Matt
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：A frequent claim in the entrepreneurship literature is that employees learn to become entrepreneurs during paid employment. We revisit this mechanism in the context of the well-established finding that smaller firms generate higher rates of entrepreneurship. We propose a novel mechanism responsible for higher rates of entrepreneurship emanating from smaller firms: large firms might have a advantage over small firms in providing internal opportunities to retain entrepreneurial talent. We test t...
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作者：Aroles, Jeremy; McLean, Christine
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School
摘要：Organizational life consists of an ever-changing world of encounters, experiences, and complex sociomaterial relations. Within this context, standard routines can be seen as a solution to problems of inefficiency within organizations, especially when associated with images of stability, repeatability, and standardization. This can bring a sense of order where there is disorder, and stability in the face of change. However, whereas standard routines may be seen as providing solutions within com...
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作者：Barley, William C.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Representations, such as graphs and images, have been shown to help facilitate communication and coordination across knowledge boundaries. Many studies examine representations' effects during and after interaction, characterizing them as tools that help communicate local understandings with individuals who have differing knowledge. This study explores whether the anticipation of building representations to communicate across knowledge boundaries significantly shapes a community's work. To expl...
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作者：de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr.; Rawley, Evan; Rider, Christopher I.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Columbia University; Georgetown University
摘要：We present a general framework for understanding why firms are slow to make major strategic changes in a wide range of empirical settings. We then apply this framework to investigate, more specifically, the relationship between firm age and scope in hedge funds. Our empirical analyses demonstrate that younger hedge funds outperform older hedge funds both before and after the launch of a new fund. Based on our framework, these results suggest that age-based rigidity in hedge funds is more attri...
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作者：Lee, Jeong-Yeon; Bachrach, Daniel G.; Rousseau, Denise M.
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：A field study of 615 managers in 11 Korean manufacturing firms extends theory regarding labor contracting to the study of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals). Despite i-deals' potential to benefit both employees and employers, economic theory asserts that employers attempt to reduce individual contracting by use of internal labor markets (ILMs). This study identifies limits to that assertion by identifying conditions under which i-deals are sought, despite employee participation in ILMs. Furthermore...
