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- 2007
- Working Paper
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship
By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how...
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Bendersky, Corinne, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-044, December 2007.
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
The Performance Effects of Regulatory Oversight
This paper explores the heterogeneity in firm performance that can arise from exogenously varying levels of oversight in regulated industries. We use data on the performance of U.S. commercial banks to show that banks located physically closer to their supervisors'...
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- October 2020
- Article
The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services
By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain Industries;
Business-to-consumer Industries;
Services;
Innovation;
Economy;
Framework;
Supply Chain;
Service Operations;
Innovation and Invention;
Economic Growth;
United States
Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills. "The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services." Research Policy 49, no. 8 (October 2020).
- 2020
- Working Paper
Social Influence in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments
By: Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz and Sameer Srivastava
As conveners that bring various stakeholders into the same physical space, firms can powerfully influence the course of pandemics such as COVID-19. Even when operating under government orders and health guidelines, firms have considerable discretion to keep their...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Peer Influence;
Closure Decisions;
Health Pandemics;
Business Ventures;
Decisions;
Business and Community Relations
Nagaraj, Abhishek, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz, and Sameer Srivastava. "Social Influence in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments." Working Paper, December 2020.
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Research Summary
By: Leslie A. Perlow
There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research focuses on the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
into a giant field experiment against their will. "It doesn’t mean you have to be in the office every week. The guiding principle is that the team decides what the co-location schedule will be." The results of the BRAC experiment follow...
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by Ben Rand
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
co-locate with buyers in industry clusters, they share ideas and concentrate talent. In order to get a handle on the impact of the supply chain economy, Delgado and Mills examined the input-output tables of the US Census Bureau, which...
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- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
firm. In fact, hybrid models can embrace WFA, with teams collectively determining when to come to the office. Instead of mandating workers to work from the office a few days every week, teams can decide to co-locate in the office a week a...
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
notes that co-location can be virtual in the case of crowdsourcing, using chat rooms, shared folders, or shared websites. "There's more complex work that really requires this teaming on the fly, and the social technologies make it...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other in the value creation process, tend to geographically co-locate in clusters. The competitiveness approach argues that to be effective, measures to upgrade productivity need to be at least in part cluster-specific. If government only...
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by Christian Ketels
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
from marketing to sales and vice versa helps. So too does co-location. Of course, as the company grows large and more global, co-location becomes difficult. And, there are conflicting needs. Should, for example, the product managers be...
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by Benson Shapiro
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
negative productivity effects of WFA, due to a lack of learning from co-located peers and increased coordination costs. We study the effects of WFA on productivity at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and exploit two...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
disentangle two distinct consequences of the geographic co-location of competitors in the same industry. Geographic co-location increases the ease with which "communities of practice" can form, and...
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- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
literature on co-located clusters and clusters' linkages, we focus on the impact of lead firms’ strategies on the competitiveness of a pair of “twin” clusters located in Northeast Italy. Our findings suggest that production remains...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentration without co-locating. The final layer examines why some firms are more inclined to co-locate than others based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
boundaries of these learning behaviors. We find that effective virtual teams, like co-located teams, engage in both reflective and action-oriented learning behaviors. However, the virtual context highlights distinct participation...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
work of high-tech contractors varies widely from job to job. People who are good at presenting their prior experience can narrow the gap between their past experience and future capabilities. "Film crew work is also intensely View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
proximity to the client, particularly during a time crunch. As the case states, "Sonne knew from experience that for some applications, especially financial and others that executed mission-critical functionality, co-location of...
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