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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：Iowa State University
摘要：Although control is presumed to be necessary to curb opportunism, its implementation in alliances can be costly and challenging. Paradoxically, some contemporary firms have counterintuitively developed successful alliances without extensive formal control. A widespread but untested assertion that might help reconcile this contradiction is that technological modularity reduces the need for alliance control. The objective of this study is to develop and test this assertion. Using data from 120 s...
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作者：Oriani, Raffaele; Sobrero, Mauriz
作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University; University of Bologna
摘要：The aim of this study is to provide new theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the effect of market and technological uncertainty on the market valuation of a firm's R&D capital. A set of hypotheses is developed adopting a real options logic and tested on a panel dataset of 290 manufacturing firms traded in the UK. Consistently with our theoretical model, we show that market and technological uncertainty have distinct effects on the valuation of R&D investments. The results have severa...
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作者：Barthelemy, Jerome
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：An important feature of most franchise chains is that they simultaneously use franchised and company-owned outlets. In this study, I show that the relationship between the resources provided to outlet managers and the financial performance Of franchise chains is contingent on their governance structure. Specifically, opportunism and knowledge considerations seem to prevent chains with a large proportion of franchised outlets front fully leveraging resources such as a valuable brand name and ta...
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作者：Mackey, Alison
作者单位：California State University System; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
摘要：The extent to which CEOs influence firm performance is fundamental to scholarly understanding of how organizations work; yet, this linkage is poorly understood. Previous empirical efforts to examine the link between CEOs and firm performance using variance decomposition, while provocative, nevertheless suffer from methodological problems that systematically understate the relative impact of CEOs on firm performance compared to industry and firm effects. This study addresses these methodologica...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：Iowa State University
摘要：Knowledge-intensive outsourcing alliances present outsourcers with a tension between simultaneously sharing enough private knowledge to accomplish alliance goals and safeguarding such knowledge against misappropriation. This study explores the perspective that increasing interfirm modularity lowers the need for interfirm knowledge sharing. Put another way modularity complements outsourcee ignorance. Analyses of data on 209 alliances between U.S. firms and software services firms in Russia, Ire...
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作者：Ang, Siah Hwee
作者单位：University of Auckland
摘要：This article investigates the impact of competitive intensity and collaboration on firm growth across technological environments. I propose that competitive intensity determines the likelihood of firm collaboration, and that the interaction of competitive intensity and collaboration influences firm growth. These relationships are, in turn, moderated by industry-level technological intensity. Analyzing 1,004 firms and 378 collaborations from the manufacturing sector in Singapore, I find that fi...
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作者：Gavetti, Giovanni; Levinthal, Daniel A.; Rivkin, Jan W.
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：In his thoughtful commentary on our 2005 paper (Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2005), Farjoun offers three critiques and extensions. First, he suggests our approach should have explicitly considered a constructionist logic. Second, Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feed back-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights some of the contingencies u...
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作者：Doving, Erik; Gooderham, Paul N.
作者单位：Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We propose that differences in the scope of related diversification in firms can be accounted,for by differences in their dynamic capabilities.In order to test this, we analyze 254 Norwegian small firm accountancy practices' possession of key dynamic capabilities including the heterogeneity of their human capital, their internal development routines, and their alliances with complementary service providers. We also analyze the influence of strategic choice, in terms of the positioning of the p...
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作者：Laamanen, Tomi; Keil, Thomas
作者单位：Aalto University
摘要：Based on an analysis of the most active acquirers in seven industry sectors in the United States in the 1990s, we find that both a high rate of acquisitions and a high variability of the rate are negatively related to performance. An acquirer's size, the scope of its acquisition program, and acquisition experience moderate the relationship by weakening the negative effects. Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of acquisition capabilities and program-level acquisition performanc...
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作者：Leiponen, Aija
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：This empirical study of business-to-business service firms examines the determinants and effects of control rights to intellectual assets in a property rights theoretic framework. Regression analyses using survey data suggest that service suppliers that retain control over their intellectual output tire more innovative. In long-term relationships, service firms' clients may thus be better off balancing their need to control outsourced activities with the suppliers' incentives to invest in lear...
