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作者：Byun, Heejung; Frake, Justin; Agarwal, Rajshree
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research Summary: This paper investigates the interaction effects of specialization and relational capital on performance. We distinguish between upstream and downstream relational capital and theorize that higher levels of specialization will buffer against decreases in upstream relational capital, because of deeper domain expertise and stronger downstream relational capital. Conversely, higher levels of generalization permit greater gains from increases in upstream relational capital, due to...
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作者：Kim, Sungho; Anand, Jaideep (Jay)
作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Research Summary: Intra-firm replication of complex knowledge is difficult yet critical to firm growth and the exploitation of competitive advantage. Inter-unit organizational structures can facilitate the replication of complex knowledge between a source unit and a recipient unit. This study examines how inter-unit organizational structures perform at different levels of knowledge complexity. We dimensionalize the patterns of information-processing interactions according to three specific fac...
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作者：Vermeulen, Freek
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Research Summary: This paper develops an inheritance theory explaining the diffusion and persistence of detrimental management practice. Received wisdom, in both management theory and practice, would suggest that a practice that lowers the life expectancy of adopting firms, over time, will vanish because it puts those firms at a competitive disadvantage. In this paper, I challenge this view. I develop a conceptual model that details how a practice that lowers the survival chances of adopting o...
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作者：Barney, Jay B.; Foss, Nicolai J.; Lyngsie, Jacob
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Bocconi University
摘要：Research Summary: Much research suggests that entrepreneurial opportunities in established firms result from bottom-up initiative in a diverse workforce, senior management's main role in the entrepreneurial process is to select among opportunities generated in the bottom-up process, and it should refrain from directly getting involved in this process. We develop an alternative and more active view of the role of senior management in the opportunity formation process in which senior management ...
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作者：Gupta, Abhinav; Misangyi, Vilmos F.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Research Summary: We argue that because charisma and narcissism represent widely held prototypes of effective and ineffective forms of leadership, respectively, the likelihood that a focal firm will imitate the practices of its peer firms is affected by these peer firms' CEO characteristics. We theorize that peer firm CEO charisma enhances the focal firm's imitation of peer firms' behaviors, while peer firm CEO narcissism diminishes it. We further posit that the uncertainty of the context affe...
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作者：Zollo, Maurizio; Minoja, Mario; Coda, Vittorio
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Udine
摘要：Research summary: We develop an integrative approach to the study of strategic management in a four-step logical sequence. First, we discuss one of the rare conceptual frameworks of integrated firm strategy introduced by Coda (1984). Second, we focus on competitive, growth, and stakeholder strategies and identify four integrative mechanisms underlying the creation of joint outcomes from the combination of different strategic choices. Third, we study how these mechanisms might allow specific bi...
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作者：Pratap, Sankalp; Saha, Biswatosh
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
摘要：Research Summary: This article examines the adaptation process of a large manufacturer in the Indian steel industry faced with radical sociopolitical shifts in the external ecosystem. It uses the Bower-Burgelman process model in combination with Bourdieu's praxis theory to explain the emergence of competing managerial initiatives and associated contests in the company's internal ecology of strategy-making in terms of socially acquired dispositions. It illuminates process-practice pathways thro...
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作者：Chen, Zhuo; Kale, Prashant; Hoskisson, Robert E.
作者单位：Rice University
摘要：Research Summary: This study examines the role of geographic factors in explaining acquisition pairing using a novel conditional logic methodology. Drawing from information asymmetry arguments regarding acquisition decisions, we theorize that geographic overlap between the acquirer and potential targets' businesses and operations enables the acquirer to collect more information about the potential target through its multiple business operations that are geographically proximate. We also demons...
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作者：Fattoum-Guedri, Asma; Delmar, Frederic; Wright, Mike
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; emlyon business school; Imperial College London
摘要：Research Summary: To prevent loss of control post-IPO, founder-CEOs can implement control-enhancing mechanisms disconnecting ownership from voting rights. However, this decision places them in a rich versus king dilemma. If they choose to implement such mechanisms and secure the king position, they risk losing money at IPO. If they choose not to implement control-enhancing mechanisms and adopt the rich position they risk losing control over the firm. We investigate theoretically and empiricall...
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作者：Burbano, Vanessa C.; Mamer, John; Snyder, Jason
作者单位：Columbia University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Research Summary: Inquiry into CSR as a human capital management tool has suggested that firms benefit from such activities because employees value the meaningfulness of these activities, which influences motivation and retention. We propose an alternate avenue through which firms can benefit from an important type of socially responsible activitypro bono servicesthat does not require that employees derive utility from the meaningfulness of the activity. We propose that pro bono activities can...
