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作者：Klingebiel, Ronald; Joseph, John; Machoba, Valerie
作者单位：Frankfurt School Finance & Management; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Research summary Our article examines the deliberate creation of learning opportunities in the global rollout of innovations. Some firms launch in only a subset of markets at first, with later launches being conditional on debut-market performance. Such sequencing decreases the downside of potential innovation failure but increases the downside of potential competitive preemption. Consistent with this trade-off, handset makers during the feature-phone era sequence rollout more often when innov...
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作者：Jain, Amit; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Summary Organizational learning studies demonstrate that specialization conditions multiple aspects of firm performance, including productivity and financial returns, through its effect on skill development and coordination. We know little, however, about how specialization may influence a firm's R&D performance, including both R&D productivity and innovation impact. We propose that specialization is a double-edged sword for R&D performance that can be influenced via changing scientis...
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作者：Sharma, Siddharth; Chung, Wilbur
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research Summary While agglomeration economies can enhance collocated firms' performance, firms' gains will be heterogeneous. Gains will be driven not only by firms' own traits, but also by their neighboring firms' traits. We expect a focal firm gains more from neighbors that are larger, more proximate geographically, and more related in economic activity. We leverage a quasi-experiment that features micro-geographic, establishment-level data: the exit of the HHGregg electronics retailer in ou...
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作者：Schulze, Anja; Brusoni, Stefano
作者单位：University of Zurich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Research Summary Building on the attention-based view of the firm, we elaborate the concept of dynamic capabilities and identify two constitutive elements: attention control and problem-solving. We show empirically that the control element of dynamic capabilities regulates how organizations (dis-)engage attention on operational versus change-oriented tasks. On this basis, we develop a process model of how control and problem-solving interact to reconfigure resources and thus modify ordinary ca...
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作者：Bednar, Michael K.; Westphal, James D.; McDonald, Michael L.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Research Summary This study examines how incumbent director reactions to media coverage of the #MeToo movement have impacted the evaluation of prospective corporate directors. We argue that heightened intergroup anxiety related to male-female interactions leads incumbents to seize on social attributes that bolster category-based trust in the reliability of prospective directors' interpersonal behavior. We predict that in response to #MeToo coverage, incumbents evaluate board candidates more po...
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作者：Bu, Juan; Zhao, Eric Yanfei; Li, Krista J.; Li, Joanna Mingxuan
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Research Summary This research develops a multilevel framework to study optimal distinctiveness (OD) at two levels. We distinguish between within-organization distinctiveness and between-organization distinctiveness of product design and examine how they independently and interactively influence performance. Analyzing a unique data set of 2,203 model-year observations for automobiles sold in the U.S. market from 2001 to 2016, we found that while within-organization distinctiveness of product d...
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作者：Liu, Chang; Wang, Stephanie Lu; Li, Dan
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Research Summary The media often discloses multiple firms' corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) behaviors together (i.e., multi-violator CSI disclosures). Drawing on attribution theory, we propose that multi-violator CSI disclosures artificially create violator groups. Such violator groups weaken the extent to which investors attribute each violator firm's CSI behaviors to the firm itself and subsequently lessen negative market reactions toward the violator firm. Further, the temporal consi...
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作者：Garud, Raghu; Kumaraswamy, Arun; Roberts, Anna; Xu, Le
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Research Summary We explore the challenges that digital platform-based sharing economy ventures confront in establishing legitimacy for their business models by examining the dynamics that ensued when Uber Technologies deployed its ridesharing business model in four U.S. cities. Uber entered each city to jump-start network effects by establishing cognitive legitimacy while deepening a sociopolitical legitimacy crisis that emerged due to mismatches between its business model and existing regula...
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作者：Logue, Danielle; Grimes, Matthew
作者单位：University of Technology Sydney; University of Cambridge
摘要：Research Summary Digital platforms offer a promising contemporary means for encouraging social innovation through cross-sector collaboration. Yet although such social-mission platforms are equipped to facilitate a high number of arms-length transactions, they are conversely ill-equipped to provide the necessary consensus which typically characterizes successful examples of cross-sector collaboration. Employing an in-depth archival case study of a civic crowdfunding platform, we surface a proce...
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作者：Liu, Chang; Li, Dan; Eden, Lorraine; Lyles, Marjorie A.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Research Summary This article examines whether and under what conditions multinational enterprises (MNEs) are likely to divest a subsidiary exposed to host-country terrorist attacks. Drawing on construal level theory from social psychology, we propose that the association between subsidiaries' exposure to host-country terrorist attacks and MNEs' likelihood of divesting these subsidiaries depends on their executives' social distance from the event host country. Based on a sample of Fortune US 1...
