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作者：Ghosh, Anindya; Martin, Xavier; Pennings, Johannes M.; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Tilburg University; University of Pennsylvania; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; emlyon business school
摘要：Organizations create high-impact inventions when they combine disparate strands of technology in their corporate research and development. We theorize that when undertaking complex inventive search characterized by high breadth, i.e., drawing on multiple diverse technology components, an organization's propensity toward high-impact inventions depends on its stock of experience with recombining such components and on the focus of its inventive search. Building on learning transfer theory, we ar...
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作者：Bercovitz, Janet E. L.; Tyler, Beverly B.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; North Carolina State University
摘要：In this exploratory study of university-industry sponsored research agreements, we investigate how organizational roles direct the relational learning of contracting personnel, which subsequently influences contract evolution. Integrating theory with comments from field interviews, we posit that as scientists gain contracting experience with an exchange partner their focus of attention on knowledge creation supports the establishment of a relationship based on technical competence, behavioral ...
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作者：Moliterno, Thomas P.; Beck, Nikolaus; Beckman, Christine M.; Meyer, Mark
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：P erformance comparisons-specifically, performance relative to aspirations-are central to the behavioral theory of the firm. Firms evaluate their performance in relation to their own prior performance (historical comparison) and the performance of other organizations (social comparison) and base subsequent organizational change on this performance feedback. Of the two, social performance comparison has received relatively little theoretical or empirical development. This paper seeks to fill th...
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作者：Levine, Sheen S.; Prietula, Michael J.
作者单位：Columbia University; Emory University
摘要：The principles of open collaboration for innovation (and production), once distinctive to open source software, are now found in many other ventures. Some of these ventures are Internet based: for example, Wikipedia and online communities. Others are off-line: they are found in medicine, science, and everyday life. Such ventures have been affecting traditional firms and may represent a new organizational form. Despite the impact of such ventures, their operating principles and performance are ...
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作者：Ioannou, Ioannis
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Spinouts-entrepreneurial ventures founded by ex-employees of incumbent firms within the same industry-have emerged in numerous industries. Some existing literature argues that they typically have a negative association with their parents' performance because of the loss of human capital, the disruption of organizational routines, and subsequent adverse competitive effects. More recent work, however, suggests that such negative effects may have been overstated and argues that there are conditio...
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作者：Wareham, Jonathan; Fox, Paul B.; Cano Giner, Josep Lluis
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Universitat Ramon Llull
摘要：Technology platform strategies offer a novel way to orchestrate a rich portfolio of contributions made by the many independent actors who form an ecosystem of heterogeneous complementors around a stable platform core. This form of organising has been successfully used in smartphone, gaming, commercial software, and industrial sectors. Technology ecosystems require stability and homogeneity to leverage common investments in standard components, but they also need variability and heterogeneity t...
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作者：Feldman, Emilie R.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper investigates legacy divestitures, the sale or spinoff of a company's original, or legacy, business. The central tension considered in this work is that the historical presence of a firm's legacy business should simultaneously make that unit very interdependent with the company's remaining operations and make the firm's managers highly likely to take those same interdependencies for granted. Consistent with these predictions, the post-divestiture operating performance of firms that d...
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作者：Henfridsson, Ola; Yoo, Youngjin
作者单位：University of Warwick; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：In this paper, we develop a process model of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship. We focus on the liminal periods experienced by institutional entrepreneurs when they, unlike the rest of the organization, recognize limits in the present and seek to shift a familiar past into an unfamiliar and uncertain future. Such periods involve a situation where the new possible future, not yet fully formed, exists side-by-side with established innovation trajectories. Trajectory shifts are ...
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作者：Canales, Rodrigo
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：This article explores how organizations balance the pressures to pursue efficiency through standardization with the need to remain responsive to local needs. The study combines rich ethnography with detailed loan data to show that both standardization and flexibility through relational ties provide substantial organizational benefits but also carry significant costs; thus, no strategy is inherently superior, and their coexistence generates the best results. Such coexistence, however, creates c...
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作者：Kovacs, Balazs; Carroll, Glenn R.; Lehman, David W.
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Stanford University; University of Virginia
摘要：W e present two studies that together test a fundamental yet rarely examined assumption underlying the contemporary appeal of authenticity-namely, that consumers assign higher value ratings to organizations regarded as authentic. Study 1 conducts content analysis of unsolicited online restaurant reviews entered voluntarily by consumers in three major U. S. metropolitan areas from October 2004 to October 2011; the data contain information from 1,271,796 reviews written by 252,359 unique reviewe...
