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作者：Barber, Benjamin; Diestre, Luis
作者单位：IE University
摘要：Research summary We claim that, because patent citations influence examiner selection, firms disclose citations strategically to influence which examiner is assigned to their application (examiner-shopping). Specifically, firms are more likely to cite patents reviewed by lenient examiners in their original information disclosure statement (IDS) (sent before the examiner has been selected), and delay citations to patents reviewed by tough examiners to subsequent IDS (sent once the examiner has ...
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作者：Tsolmon, Ulya; Ariely, Dan
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Duke University
摘要：Research Summary This study examines the propensity of small firms to provide health insurance in response to high state-level unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, given that generous UI benefits reduce labor market frictions that constrain employee mobility. We exploit a unique data set of over 15,000 small private firms in the United States and find that when state UI benefits are high, firms will offer their employees health insurance benefits-especially when those firms rely on human capi...
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作者：Toh, Puay Khoon; Ahuja, Gautam
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Cornell University
摘要：Research Summary We examine how and when integration of process and product components within a firm's innovation portfolio increases firm returns. Strategy literature argues that integration enhances the firm's appropriation of returns from innovations. We evaluate this argument recognizing that integration is but one of multiple appropriation tools; firms can also use other (e.g., scale-based) mechanisms to enhance appropriation. Using new measures of integration based on textual coding of p...
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作者：Mahieu, Jeroen; Melillo, Francesca; Thompson, Peter
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; SKEMA Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Research Summary Previous literature has documented a large short-term earnings gap for entrepreneurs that return to the wage sector. Using matched employer-employee data from the Belgian Labor Market & Social Protection Database, we document how this initial gap is remarkably persistent. Former entrepreneurs earn 27% less than propensity-scored matched controls 5 years after returning to wage work, which is almost unchanged from the short-term earnings drop. About 60% of this gap results from...
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作者：Falchetti, Denise; Cattani, Gino; Ferriani, Simone
作者单位：University of Bologna; New York University; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：Research Summary Building on social psychology research and entrepreneurship work on linguistic framing, we argue that the appreciation of novel ideas varies with the mental construal that members of different audiences use to evaluate them. Specifically, we theorize that the congruency between idea framing and audiences' mental construals depends on audiences' level of expertise in evaluating novel ideas. In four experiments, we found that innovators benefit from deploying framing strategies ...
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作者：Chae, Heewon
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Research Summary This study investigates the relationships between consumer income, consumer education, and firms' propensities to span multiple market categories. Despite their positive correlation, I theorize contrasting effects of income and education on firms' variety-enhancing spanning. Specifically, I propose that the strong purchasing power of high-income communities should reduce the need for firms to operate in multiple categories, but culturally omnivorous preferences among educated ...
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作者：O'Mahony, Siobhan; Karp, Rebecca
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：Research Summary When platform leaders change the rules guiding who can access and control a platform, the strategies of those who create value from the platform can be upended. Little research examines how platform participants adapt their strategies when a platform leader changes the rules governing access and control. We trace how participation with a development platform evolved under four different governance modes with varied access and control conditions. Participation intensity increas...
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作者：Pontikes, Elizabeth George
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Research Summary This study investigates category innovation, when firms introduce a new label to pioneer a market category. I propose two antecedent pathways. The first is based on firms' material developments. Firms that combine categories in their products and technologies are more likely to use category innovation to communicate their position is not peripheral, but at the center of an emerging category. The second is contextual, in response to category leniency, when a market category has...
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作者：Bonini, Stefano; Deng, Justin; Ferrari, Mascia; John, Kose; Ross, David Gaddis
作者单位：Stevens Institute of Technology; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Camden; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia; New York University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Research Summary: Agency perspectives suggest long-tenured independent directors (LTIDs) may be cronies of the CEO, making their boards less effective, but we theorize that LTIDs may have particular expertise and motivation to improve board effectiveness and ultimately firm performance. We find strong support for this prediction using 15 years of data on the S&P 1,500 firms and an instrument based on director age at time of hire. We also find that an LTID adds more value to firms that are comp...
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作者：Chondrakis, George; Melero, Eduardo; Sako, Mari
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Oxford
摘要：Research Summary Although the link between coordination requirements and vertical integration is theoretically well established, empirical tests of this relationship are hard to implement due to the simultaneous determination of both variables. In this study, we take advantage of regulatory changes in patent prosecution in the United States to provide plausibly causal evidence linking increases in coordination requirements with insourcing. Moreover, we examine the role of plural sourcing, that...
