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作者：Petrenko, Oleg V.; Aime, Federico; Ridge, Jason; Hill, Aaron
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Clemson University
摘要：This study builds on insights from both upper echelons and agency perspectives to examine the effects on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of CEO's narcissism. Drawing on prior theory about CEO narcissism, we argue that CSR can be a response to leaders' personal needs for attention and image reinforcement and hypothesize that CEO narcissism has positive effects on levels and profile of organizational CSR; additionally, CEO narcissism will reduce the effect of CSR on performance. ...
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作者：Brahm, Francisco; Tarzijan, Jorge
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
摘要：Research summary: Two central issues in strategic management are the determination of a firm's internal delegation and its vertical boundaries. Despite the importance of these issues, there is scant analysis concerning their interaction. Using a comprehensive database of the construction industry, we show that vertical integration positively influences the centralization decision and that the main mechanism driving this relationship is an improvement in the hierarchically coordinated adaptatio...
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作者：Wang, Heli; Zhao, Shan; He, Jinyu
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Grenoble Ecole Management; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Research summary: We argue that the extent to which a firm faces takeover threats affects its knowledge structure. In particular, takeover threats may lead to managers' reluctance to adopt a strategy toward firm-specific knowledge accumulation because implementing this strategy requires them to acquire specialized skills, which are at risk under takeover threats. Conversely, takeover protection leads to an increase in firm-specific knowledge. Further, the relationship between takeover protecti...
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作者：Zheng, Yanfeng; Devaughn, Michael L.; Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of St Thomas Minnesota; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research summary: Pre-entry industry experience is a central construct in the founding team literature. Research on prior shared experience (PSE) emphasizes that founding teams face challenges integrating and acting on independent experiences, so PSE should be beneficial for new venture performance. Existing studies, however, typically study PSE in blunt terms, expecting that more is better. Instrumental variable analyses of a unique sample of 344 commercial banks founded in four U.S. states b...
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作者：van Reeven, Peran; Pennings, Enrico
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Research summary: We reconsider the relationship between multimarket contact and product quality in the airline industry by arguing that multimarket contact has both a negative mutual forbearance effect on quality and a positive network coordination effect on quality. Multimarket contact increases the frequency of contact between firms, and this anticipated future interaction promotes cooperation. In network industries, especially small firms may want to cooperate in order to increase the attr...
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作者：Jacobides, Michael G.; MacDuffie, John Paul; Tae, C. Jennifer
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of Pennsylvania; University of Bath
摘要：Research summary: This article reviews structural change in the automotive sector from 1997 to 2007. We find that, following internal framing contests, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) led efforts to change their sector's architecture, starting from both strong and weak competitive positions and working with suppliers to advocate a new vision based on modularity and outsourcing. As the risks and costs of this vision became apparent, OEMs were able to reverse course and reaffirm their hi...
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作者：Krause, Ryan; Semadeni, Matthew; Withers, Michael C.
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Research summary: Many boards view their chairs as valuable resources. We predict that whether a board adopts such a view depends on the board chair's human and social capital. Data from S&P 500 firms suggest that while a board chair's human capital increases the probability that the board views him or her as a resource, social capital has no overall effect. In a post-hoc investigation, however, we find the board chair's independence to be an important boundary condition for the effect of soci...
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作者：Belenzon, Sharon; Tsolmon, Ulya
作者单位：Duke University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Research summary: We show that frictions in labor and capital markets can be a source of competitive advantage for affiliates of corporate groups over stand-alone firms in environments where benefits from internal markets' flexibility are high. We argue that the advantage of flexibility in changing labor inputs is related to how difficult it is to change capital inputs. We predict that if substituting labor with capital is difficult, the group advantage of flexibly changing labor would be stro...
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作者：Schillebeeckx, Simon J. D.; Chaturvedi, Sankalp; George, Gerard; King, Zella
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Imperial College London; University of Reading
摘要：Research summary: We examine individuals' collaboration preferences in the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) for the UK plastics electronics sector. Using conjoint analysis, we investigate how aspiration gaps and relational capability affect the value placed on potential organizational collaborations. Aspiration gaps reflect individuals' perception of whether they are ahead of or behind peers on their career trajectory, and relational capability captures three distinct dimensions: networking sk...
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作者：Roy, Raja; Sarkar, M. B.
作者单位：Drexel University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：We explore the relationship between a firm's organization and its ability to face a radical technological change. We suggest that, during such a change, the presence of both in-house upstream knowledge and downstream market linkages, within a firm's boundary, has its advantages. We test our predictions in the context of the robotics industry where manufacturers of mechanically controlled brawny robots, which were valued mainly for their payload capacity, faced the advent of electrically contro...
