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作者：Cabral, Sandro; Mahoney, Joseph T.; McGahan, Anita M.; Potoski, Matthew
作者单位：Insper; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：Research Summary: In recent years, strategy scholarship expanded its scope beyond the realm of private firms. Despite notable advances, the field still lacks theoretical and empirical frameworks for fully understanding how public and nonprofit organizations interact with private firms to create and appropriate value. By recognizing the inherent complexity of interactions between organizations with different purposes and the existing challenges for designing effective governance arrangements, w...
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作者：Du, Xianjin; Li, Meng; Wu, Brian
作者单位：Hefei University of Technology; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Research Summary Incumbent firms often reposition themselves in response to entrants, but when doing so they incur repositioning costs. Incumbent repositioning costs and the associated decision biases have been identified in the economics, operations, and strategy literatures as critical aspects of the competitive interactions between incumbents and entrants, but they have received limited attention in game-theoretic treatments at the strategy level. To fill this gap, we develop a strategic me...
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作者：Barlow, Matthew A.; Verhaal, J. Cameron; Angus, Ryan W.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Tulane University; West Virginia University
摘要：Research Summary: New entrants often face uncertainty regarding how to optimally position themselves within product markets. We suggest that new entrants can use two important schemas to strategically categorize themselves to gain a competitive advantage in platform markets: category exemplars and category prototypes. Using a unique dataset of more than 83,000 new Google Play developers and more than 139,000 apps, we find that the optimally distinct entry point is at a high level of exemplar s...
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作者：Haans, Richard F. J.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Research Summary Is moderate distinctiveness optimal for performance? Answers to this question have been mixed, with both inverted U and U-shaped relationships being argued for and found in the literature. I show how nearly identical mechanisms driving the distinctiveness-performance relationship can yield both U-shaped and inverted U-shaped effects due to differences in relative strength, rather than their countervailing nature. Incorporating distinctiveness heterogeneity, I theorize a U-shap...
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作者：Shah, Sonali K.; Agarwal, Rajshree; Echambadi, Rai
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Northeastern University
摘要：Research Summary This study examines motivations and team building processes of employee entrepreneurs in the disk-drive industry. Our inductive, grounded theory building approach uncovers that ringleaders-founders who spearhead spinout creation-are driven by a nonpecuniary desire to create in a fertile environment, when they encounter frictions within the parent firm. Cofounders share the desire to create, but ensure departure on good terms to retain the option of returning to paid employment...
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作者：Kim, Jin Hyung
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Research Summary Prior research in political strategy shows that political capital is critical in achieving desirable nonmarket strategy outcomes. Less attention has been paid to the fact that firms vary in their ability to acquire political capital. Foreign firms, which typically suffer from the liability of foreignness, have difficulty acquiring and strengthening political capital in a host country. Drawing on the literatures on political capital, the liability of foreignness, and certificat...
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作者：Harrison, Joseph S.; Thurgood, Gary R.; Boivie, Steven; Pfarrer, Michael D.
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Utah System of Higher Education; Utah State University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Research Summary: We introduce to the upper echelons literature a novel, linguistic measure of CEOs' Big Five personality traits that we specifically developed and validated using a sample of CEOs. We then provide a predictive test of the measure by applying it to a sample of more than 3,000 CEOs of S&P 1500 firms to explore the direct and interactive effects of CEOs' Big Five personality traits and firm performance on strategic change. Our validated, unobtrusive measure of CEOs' Big Five trai...
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作者：Guldiken, Orhun; Mallon, Mark R.; Fainshmidt, Stav; Judge, William Q.; Clark, Cynthia E.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Elon University; Old Dominion University; Bentley University
摘要：Research Summary We employ an exploratory approach to understand what differentiates boards that retain limited, potentially tokenistic, gender diversity (i.e., a single female director), and boards that more genuinely diversify their composition by appointing additional female directors. Previous studies have speculated that strategic leaders responsible for board appointments may influence this occurrence. Using longitudinal data on U.S. firms, we find that more female top managers and havin...
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作者：Gambeta, Eni; Koka, Balaji R.; Hoskisson, Robert E.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Rice University
摘要：Research Summary: A firm's stakeholder orientation toward its employees is argued to be beneficial for firm outcomes. However, this orientation may also have disparate impacts on particular behaviors and outcomes, such as local versus distant search, which impose contradictory firm requirements. We find that while a strong firm-employee relationship leads to increasingly higher levels of local search (exploitation), it also leads to increasingly lower levels of distant search (exploration). In...
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作者：Huang, Tori Y.; Souitaris, Vangelis; Barsade, Sigal G.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; University of St Gallen; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research Summary We examine the influence of two conflicting emotions-group fear and group hope-in entrepreneurial team decision-making. We are interested in which emotion will be more strongly related to whether entrepreneurial teams escalate their commitment to a currently failing venture versus terminating that venture. Using a longitudinal start-up simulation and based on data from 66 teams across 569 decision-making rounds, we find that group hope trumps fear. That is, the relationship be...
