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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
service provider effort induce feelings of reciprocity that together mediate the link between operational transparency and increased valuation, and explore boundary conditions and alternative explanations. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
boundaries around their workday. “When people typically arrive home from work, they often have a corner or a mudroom where they drop their stuff,” Norton says. “Now many people have work all over the place.” He advises storing laptops and...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms so frequently reject non-incremental innovations? One reason is due to the firm’s top management team’s (TMT) lack of frame flexibility, i.e., an inability to expand the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
What was the future of TV? The case considers Samsung Electronics TV Group's product development processes, as the company's mobile and TV offerings increasingly converged and consumer demands and behavior pushed the historically clear View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/resultsa.asp?Title=Manchurian+Railways+and+the+Opening+of+China%3A+An+International+History Crossing Boundaries to Increase Relevance in Organizational Research Authors: Jeffrey Polzer, Ranjay Gulati, Rakesh...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
well. Clearly the man-of-action hero is a very important model for professional life for the upper middle class. However, for the purposes of this academic paper, we had to restrict the boundaries on our claims. Q: Are there people in...
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by Manda Salls
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
components and subsystems. Yet the well codified interfaces at many module boundaries also opened the system up to outside providers of components, mainly software. This served research scientists who were doing cutting-edge research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
their communication quality and ultimately to benefit their performance. Paper not available. Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe Authors:Christopher C. Liu, Toby E....
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
shifts away from ambidextrous designs were associated with decreases in innovation outcomes. We explore the nature of ambidextrous organizational designs – their characteristics, how they operate, and their boundary conditions. Given...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
"boilerplate" to the agents' incentives to just lack of creative thinking and willingness to push the boundaries of what's done. One of the goals of the book is to put these kinds of moves on the table for people to consider. Q:...
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by Julia Hanna
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the boundaries of organizations. Though experience and productivity improvement may be seen as key benefits of this trend, little is known about how this shift toward outsourcing influences learning. When producing a unit of output, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important for organizations and the economy because the boundaries of organizational units and corporations are likely to match the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
factor: the degree of the top management team’s (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to perceptually expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonant with the organization’s...
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Dina Gerdeman