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作者：Govindarajan, V; Kopalle, PK
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：Strategic management scholars have long explored the broad topic of innovation, a cornerstone in creating competitive advantage. Any attempt at theory construction in this area must encompass reliable and valid measures for key innovation characteristics. Yet, with respect to an important construct, i.e., disruptiveness of innovations, there has been relatively little academic research. Without formalizing the disruptiveness concept with a reliable and valid measure, it is difficult to conduct...
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作者：Barnett, Michael L.; Salomon, Robert M.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; New York University
摘要：A central and contentious debate in many literatures concerns the relationship between financial and social performance. We advance this debate by measuring the financial-social performance link within mutual funds that practice socially responsible investing (SRI). SRI fund managers have an array of social screening strategies from which to choose. Prior studies have not addressed this heterogeneity within SRI funds. Combining modern portfolio and stakeholder theories, we hypothesize that the...
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作者：Dowell, Glen
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：A firm's product line breadth in a given market has both benefits and costs; these effects can be more clearly seen by examining not only the number of products a firm offers, but also the degree of complexity that the product line represents. The effects of breadth are particularly important for new entrants in a relatively mature industry and I examine the breadth-survival relation on new entrants in the bicycle industry in the period 1993-98. I find that firms offering a greater number of p...
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作者：Katsikeas, Constantine S.; Samiee, Saeed; Theodosiou, Marios
作者单位：University of Tulsa; University of Leeds; University of Cyprus
摘要：This study addresses a long-standing debate in the literature regarding the appropriateness and performance consequences of marketing strategy standardization vs. adaptation. Much of the relevant literature represents the headquarters' viewpoint and broadly assesses antecedents of standardization or adaptation across widely varying markets. Using strategic fit as the theoretical platform for analysis, the study investigates international marketing strategy for a specific product or line within...
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作者：Phene, A; Fladmoe-Lindquist, K; Marsh, L
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：How are breakthrough innovations created? Our study suggests that the type of external knowledge sourced determines the likelihood of creation of breakthrough innovation. We characterize the external knowledge utilized on two dimensions: its technological space and geographic origin. We draw on the concepts of local search and national innovation systems to identify critical knowledge inputs. We hypothesize that external knowledge characterized by technological distance or proximity and the na...
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作者：Basdeo, Dax K.; Smith, Ken G.; Grimm, Curtis M.; Rindova, Violina P.; Derfus, Pamela J.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Drawing on signaling theory, we hypothesize that a firm's reputation is shaped by its own market actions and the actions of its industry rivals. We view market actions as signals that convey information about the underlying competencies of firms and influence stakeholder evaluations of them. We find that the total number of a firm's market actions, the complexity of its action repertoire, the time lag in rivals' responses to its actions, and the similarity of its repertoire with those of its r...
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作者：Kor, Yasemin Y.
作者单位：University of Delaware
摘要：This paper examines why firms differ in levels of R&D investment intensity by developing and testing a theory of direct and interaction effects of top management team and board outsider composition on R&D intensity. The theory is tested in a longitudinal sample of technology-intensive firms that completed an initial public offering. The results indicate that both top management team composition and board composition have direct and additive effects on R&D investment intensity. Also, monitoring...
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作者：Henderson, AD; Miller, D; Hambrick, DC
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Scholars have characterized CEO tenures as life cycles ill which executives learn rapidly during their initial time ill office, but then grow stale as they lose touch with the external environment. We argue, however, that the opportunities for adaptive learning are limited because (1) a CEO assunies office with a relatively fixed paradigm that changes little thereafter; (2) inertia limits the speed at which all organization call align itself with a new CEO's paradigm; and (3) for am within -pa...
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作者：Agrawal, A
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：A significant portion of knowledge generated by university inventors remains latent (uncodified but codifiable), even though this information is valuable to firms that have licensed their inventions and famously strong incentives exist to disseminate academic findings widely. However, the licensee may access and exploit this latent knowledge by engaging the inventor during the development phase. This paper examines the hypothesis that licensing strategies that directly engage the inventor incr...
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作者：Ralston, David A.; Terpstra-Tong, Jane; Terpstra, Robert H.; Wang, Xueli; Egri, Carolyn
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Macau; Tsinghua University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：This paper raises the question and provides empirical evidence regarding the status of the evolution of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China today. In this study, we compare the SOEs to domestic private-owned enterprises (POEs) and foreign-controlled businesses (FCBs) in the context of their organizational cultures. While a new ownership form, many of the POEs evolved from former collectives that reflect the traditional values of Chinese business. Conversely, the FCBs are much more indi...
