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作者：Yang, Haibin; Lin, Zhiang (John); Lin, Ya (Lisa)
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Extending prior firm boundary research that tends to focus on economic explanations and rely on atomistic assumptions, we propose a multilevel framework by bridging the resource-based view and the social network perspective with their respective emphases on the importance of firms' internal resource endowments and external resource opportunities. Specifically, we argue that firms' boundary choices can be better understood by considering the tension between the need for external resources and t...
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作者：Simsek, Zeki; Heavey, Ciaran; Veiga, John (Jack) F.
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：Although much has been attributed to a CEO's personality, one particularly intriguing, and as yet unexplored, investigation is its impact on the firm's entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, despite calls from the upper-echelon literature, CEO personality research has been hobbled by the absence of a unifying construct that captures core dimensions of personality, and by the difficulty in obtaining such intimate assessments from executives. Building on recent advances in personality resear...
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作者：Zhang, Yan; Li, Haiyang
作者单位：Rice University
摘要：In this study, we examine the relationships between new ventures' ties with service intermediaries (i.e., technology service firms, accounting and financial service firms, law firms, and talent search firms) and their product innovation in the context of a technology cluster. Because service intermediaries sit at the intersection of many firms, organizations and industries, they maintain extensive networks in a cluster. We propose that new ventures' ties with service intermediaries enable the ...
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作者：Sirmon, David G.; Hitt, Michael A.; Arregle, Jean-Luc; Campbell, Joanna Tochman
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School
摘要：Foundational RBV work suggests that firms possess capabilities that represent strengths and others that represent weaknesses. In contrast, contemporary research has examined capability strengths while largely ignoring weaknesses. Addressing this oversight, we examine the direct and integrated effects of sets of capability strengths and capability weaknesses on competitive advantage and its empirical correlate-relative performance. Additionally, we explore how environmental and firm-specific fa...
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作者：Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Lieberman, Marvin B.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：This paper characterizes interindustry heterogeneity in rates of learning-by-doing, and examines how industry learning rates art, connected with firm performance. Using plant-level data from the U.S. manufacturing Sector, we measure the industry learning rate, as the coefficient on cumulative output in a production function. We find that learning rates vary considerably among industries and are higher in industries with greater R&D, advertising, and capital intensity. More importantly, we find...
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作者：Ballinger, Gary A.; Marcel, Jeremy J.
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Our study investigates an unexplored succession process-interim CEO successions. We define an interim CEO succession as a case where the title of chief executive officer is vacated by the incumbent and the board of directors has not announced a permanent successor, but instead designates a particular individual as 'interim CEO,' or 'acting CEO,' or 'CEO until a permanent successor is named.' Theory predicts that interim CEO successions will lead to the type of disruption that can hat-in firm p...
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作者：Haynes, Katalin Takacs; Hillman, Amy
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We develop the construct of board capitol, composed of the breadth and depth of directors' human and social capital, and explore how board capital affects strategic change. Building upon resource dependence theory, we submit that board capital breadth leads to more strategic change, while board capital depth leads to less. We also recognize CEO power as a moderator of these relationships. Our hypotheses are tested using a random sample of firms on the S&P 500. We find support for the effect of...
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作者：Soh, Pek-Hooi
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：This study examines the performance implications of the alliance networks of 49 firms that competed for two technology standards in the U.S. local area network industry from 1989 to 1996. During the race to define a dominant design, individual firms attract the suppliers of complements by building alliance networks to favor the firms' preferred technology standard. Controlling,for the number of suppliers in each technology standard community and the extent Of technical progress achieved by ind...
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作者：Adner, Ron; Kapoor, Rahul
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The success of an innovating firm often depends on the efforts of other innovators in its environment. How do the challenges faced by external innovators affect the focal firm's outcomes? To address this question we first characterize the external environment according to the structure Of interdependence. We follow the flow of inputs and outputs in the ecosystem to distinguish between upstream components that tire handled by the focal firm, and downstream complements that are bundled by the fi...
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作者：Aime, Federico; Johnson, Scott; Ridge, Jason W.; Hill, Aaron D.
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：We extend our theoretical understanding of the effect of key employee mobility on organizational performance. We find that when an organization with an advantageous set (if routines loses a key employee to a competitor, the advantaged organization's competitive position is reduced vis-a-vis the hiring competitor. What is more interesting is that we also show that the diffusion of an advantageous set of routines through the mobility of key employees may affect competitive advantage in at least ...
