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作者：Oliver, David; Cole, Benjamin M.
作者单位：University of Sydney; Fordham University
摘要：Research Summary The success of skunkworks often involves nurturing an identity at odds with the parent firm, which may cause de-identification with the firm and hamper reintegration of team members post-project. This identity work could lead to market success but organizational failure as skunkworks' members distance themselves from the parent firm tasking the innovation. To explore the when and how of identity work throughout a skunkworks' lifecycle, we studied a skunkworks at an internation...
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作者：Luo, Jiao; Kaul, Ascem
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research Summary: We develop a theoretical framework to define the comparatively efficient organizational form for dealing with a social issue, based on the market frictions associated with it. Specifically, we argue that for-profits have an advantage in undertaking innovation and coordinating production economies, nonprofits in playing a fiduciary role given ex post information asymmetry, self-governing collectives in dealing with bounded externalities through private ordering, and state bure...
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作者：Paruchuri, Srikanth; Pollock, Timothy G.; Kumar, Naveen
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell
摘要：Research Summary This study contributes to the reputation spillover literature by showing how a crisis caused by a firm's capability failure enhances the reputations of its rivals. We consider how the combination of rivals' characteristics that increase their associability with the focal firm and the extent to which the crisis is salient in the minds of stakeholders can lead to positive reputation spillovers, and we also explore how long the positive reputation spillover lasts. Using a natural...
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作者：Wen, Wen; Zhu, Feng
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Harvard University
摘要：Research Summary This paper studies the impact of platform-owner entry threat on complementors in platform-based markets. We examine how app developers on the Android mobile platform adjust innovation efforts (rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to the threat of Google's entry into their markets. We find that after Google's entry threat increases, affected developers reduce innovation and raise the prices for the affected apps. However, their incentives to innovate are...
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作者：Belenzon, Sharon; Hashai, Niron; Patacconi, Andrea
作者单位：Duke University; Reichman University; University of East Anglia
摘要：Research Summary This paper examines the relationship between strategic decision-making at the subsidiary level and organizational structure. In many organizations, headquarters and subsidiaries are separated by intermediate subsidiaries. Building on the attention-based view of the firm, we argue that the greater the organizational distance of a focal subsidiary from headquarters (measured by the number of intermediate subsidiaries separating the subsidiary from headquarters), the lower the at...
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作者：Kandel, Eugene; Kosenko, Konstantin; Morck, Randall; Yafeh, Yishay
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Alberta
摘要：Research Summary: Control-magnifying (pyramidal) business groups-multiple tiers of partially-owned listed affiliates and fully-owned private affiliates, a dominant organizational form around the world-are virtually absent in America today. Using newly-assembled historical data, we show that such groups were ubiquitous in the U.S. economy in the 1930s. They came under attack because of their economic and political sway: Some New Deal reforms-proscriptions against public utilities pyramids, inte...
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作者：Bruce, Joshua R.; de Figueiredo, John M.; Silverman, Brian S.
作者单位：Duke University; Duke University; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Abstract: We examine how the US Federal Government governs R&D contracts with private-sector firms. The government chooses between two contractual forms: grants and cooperative agreements. The latter provides the government substantially greater discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress. Using novel data on R&D contracts and on the technical expertise available in specific government bureau locations, we test implications from the organizational economics and capabilities l...
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作者：van den Oever, Koen; Martin, Xavier
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen; Tilburg University
摘要：Research Summary: Although partnerships have been conceptualized as vehicles for value creation, less is known about which partners appropriate more value out of them, especially among public organizations. We theorize how politics and procedural rationality in decisionmaking respectively are associated with value creation and value appropriation from partnerships between public organizations. Analysis of data from the Dutch water authority sector (2008-2014) shows that organizations employing...
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作者：Chatterji, Aaron K.; Cunningham, Colleen M.; Joseph, John E.
作者单位：Duke University; University of London; London Business School; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Research Summary: We explore how interorganizational relationships shape firm boundary decisions. Using data on 545 U.S. medical device manufacturers' product portfolios and sales-governance choices (i.e., internal or external sales forces) from 1983 to 1996, we find relational capital between manufacturers and external sales forces influences future firm boundary decisions. Relational capital lowers the likelihood of integrating the sales function, but only when firms remain focused on the sa...
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作者：Raffaelli, Ryan; Glynn, Mary Ann; Tushman, Michael
作者单位：Harvard University; Boston College
摘要：Research SummaryWhy do incumbent firms frequently reject nonincremental innovations? Beyond technical, structural, or economic factors, we propose an additional factor: the degree of the top management team's (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to cognitively expand an innovation's categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonant with the organization's identity, competencies, and competitive boundaries. We argue that inertial forces generally constrict how...
