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作者：Chari, Mukund; Steensma, H. Kevin; Connaughton, Charles; Heidl, Ralph
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tulane University; University of Oregon
摘要：Research summary Patent assertion entities (PAEs) are intermediaries that acquire patents from inventors and license them to firms that use the intellectual property to develop products. We consider how PAE intermediation influences inventor behavior by reducing the costs to monetize their inventions. Using a proprietary dataset that tracks PAE lawsuits, we find that, as PAE intermediation for a given class of technologies increases, larger numbers of focused inventors (i.e., small firms, univ...
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作者：Allen, W. David; Schepker, Donald J.; Chadwick, Clint
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Kansas
摘要：Research Summary Strategic human capital scholars suggest that firms' human capital rents are greater when labor market frictions are more prevalent. Taking this argument further, we suggest that when frictions for one type of human capital decrease, firms are motivated to place greater emphasis on human capital that is interdependent in production where frictions are unchanged. Empirically, we exploit an exogenous institutional change in the National Football League to demonstrate that coachi...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Ploog, Joe N.
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Research Summary Freemium products require widespread diffusion for their success. One way to do this is by incorporating social features (e.g., multiplayer functionality, virtual collaboration, ridesharing), which can generate network effects and result in a product becoming a superstar. However, social features can be a double-edged sword: When demand potential for freemium products is large, social features can significantly boost a product's appeal resulting in more adoption, more usage, a...
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作者：Lee, Saerom (Ronnie)
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research summary There has been an ongoing debate over whether start-ups should be flat with minimal hierarchical layers. To reconcile this debate, this article distinguishes between creative and commercial success (i.e., novelty vs. profitability), and examines how these outcomes are variously influenced by a start-up's hierarchy. This study suggests that while a flatter hierarchy can improve ideation and creative success, it can result in haphazard execution and commercial failure by overwhe...
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作者：Kang, Hyo; Lee, Wyatt
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Summary Knowledge protection strategies are crucial to innovating firms facing the risk of knowledge leakage. We examine the threat of worker departure as a key mechanism through which firms choose between patents and secrecy. We exploit a 1998 California court decision that ruled out-of-state noncompetes were not enforceable in California, thereby creating a loophole limiting non-California firms in their enforcement of noncompetes against their workers. When facing a higher threat o...
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作者：Bao, Jiayi
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Research Summary This study examines how social safety nets providing paid family leave (PFL) benefits to employees influence subsequent business performance for entrepreneurial ventures. A multilevel framework guided by qualitative interviews proposes two competing mechanisms (pre-hiring recruitment gains via prospective employees and post-hiring operation losses via incumbent employees) and a firm-level contingency (venture innovation type). Leveraging the 2009-implemented New Jersey PFL pro...
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作者：Conti, Raffaele; Kacperczyk, Olenka; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University of London; London Business School; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：Research Abstract A diverse workforce has long been associated with multiple firm benefits, but this is sometimes difficult to achieve due to employer discrimination. Although multiple institutional arrangements have been put in place to ban discriminatory behavior, the effects of such regulations remain relatively unexplored, often neglecting start-ups. We propose that institutional changes aiming to outlaw employment discrimination will trigger two main effects: they will (a) depress start-u...
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作者：Pongeluppe, Leandro S.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Research summary E-commerce firms make fewer products available and charge higher delivery prices to customers inside Brazilian favelas than they do to customers immediately outside favelas, despite the absence of infrastructure impediments at the favela borders. This phenomenological study uses mixed methods to investigate firm heterogeneity in these practices. The analysis shows that some firms treat favela consumers more equitably than their competitors. These firms (i) invest in physical s...
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作者：Fieberg, C.; Lopatta, K.; Tammen, T.; Tideman, S. A.
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作者：Berchicci, Luca; Tarakci, Murat
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Research Summary The behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) proposes that firm behavior is goal-directed and that organizational aspirations are a function of prior historical aspirations, past performance, and the performance of others. Despite the centrality of aspirations in the BTOF, little is known about aspiration formation and why firms favor one aspiration type over others, that is, attention rules. Drawing on the attention-based view, we posit that attention rules are shaped by environm...
