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Seeing Beyond the Here and Now: How Corporate Purpose Combats Corporate Myopia 超越此时此地:企业目标如何对抗企业短视

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2023.0183

Ju Young Lee, P. Bansal, Alice Mascena Barbosa

引用次数: 3

Inside-out and Outside-in Perspectives on Corporate Purpose 企业宗旨的内外观

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2023-02-10 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2023.0180

J. Almandoz

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引用次数: 6

From the Boardroom: Making Purpose Research Relevant for Practice 从董事会:使目的研究与实践相关

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2023.0182

Rodolphe Durand

引用次数: 2

Shared Identity Schemas Shape Incumbent Responses to New Entrants 共享身份图式塑造了在位者对新进入者的反应

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0179

Özgecan Koçak, Başak Topaler

{"title":"Shared Identity Schemas Shape Incumbent Responses to New Entrants","authors":"Özgecan Koçak, Başak Topaler","doi":"10.1287/stsc.2022.0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0179","url":null,"abstract":"An outstanding question in research on competitive strategy is what determines the strength and type of strategic response that incumbents deploy against new entrants. We argue that strategists’ assessment of threat from new entrants and their choice of strategic reactions depend on the shared identity schema in their field. Position of new entrants across identity categories indicate whether they pose a competitive threat within the same identity-based niche or outside it and whether they threaten to erode the incumbent’s category’s social value relative to other categories. Potential reactions to these threats can also be classified according to whether they protect or enhance the value that incumbents create and capture through their membership in their identity category. Matching identity-relevant strategic actions to the type of threat that new entries pose, we argue that incumbents (1) employ identity-deepening tactics in response to competition in their identity-based niche; (2) use identity-extending tactics in response to competition outside their niche; (3) respond to categorical identity threats by affirming their identities; and (4) are less likely to respond to either competitive or identity threats that originate from new entrants that do not clearly fit in the shared identity schema. We find support for our predictions in analyses using data on the population of Turkish universities over a 30-year period. We discuss theoretical implications for ecological and socio-cognitive studies of markets and practical implications for predicting patterns of strategic interaction and disruptive potential of new entrants. Supplemental Material: The e-companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0179 .","PeriodicalId":45295,"journal":{"name":"Strategy Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Don’t Look Back? Backward Compatibility in the Video Gaming Industry 不要回头看?视频游戏行业的向后兼容性

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-11-23 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0177

J. Cox, Paul Crosby, J. McKenzie

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引用次数: 0

Move-in Ready or Fixer-Upper? VC Specialization and Start-up Innovation 准备入住还是待修?风险投资专业化与创业创新

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0176

Elisa Alvarez-Garrido

{"title":"Move-in Ready or Fixer-Upper? VC Specialization and Start-up Innovation","authors":"Elisa Alvarez-Garrido","doi":"10.1287/stsc.2022.0176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0176","url":null,"abstract":"Extant scholarship typically assumes that VC firms prefer to pick winners. I offer an alternative perspective: that specialist VC firms can select less attractive start-ups—with innovative potential but in need of help—and then contribute to the start-ups’ innovative processes so they can achieve their potential. The analogy is buying a fixer-upper house, which, with the right help, can be brought to the level of one that is move-in ready. I argue that specialist (versus generalist) VC firms in the syndicate have superior commercialization knowledge and specialized resource networks, and they can choose to follow a move-in-ready strategy (select winners) or a fixer-upper strategy (build winners). This choice is contingent on the research environment and how unique the help from the specialist VC firm is: in well-developed research environments, a specialist adds less value and may follow a move-in-ready strategy; in less-developed research environments, a specialist adds more value and may follow a fixer-upper strategy. I leverage an ideal empirical context, global biotechnology VC-backed start-ups, over the period 1996–2006, when the biotech industry was established in the United States and developing in 25 other countries, and highlight qualitative insights from 20 interviews with investors in seven countries.","PeriodicalId":45295,"journal":{"name":"Strategy Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44668793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Disentangling Reputational Effects in Alliances 消除联盟中的声誉效应

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0175

A. A. Costa, Luís Almeida Costa, Luís Vasconcelos

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Population-Level Evidence of the Gender Gap in Technology Entrepreneurship 技术创业中性别差距的人口层面证据

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0170

M. Miric, Pai-Ling Yin, Daniel C. Fehder

{"title":"Population-Level Evidence of the Gender Gap in Technology Entrepreneurship","authors":"M. Miric, Pai-Ling Yin, Daniel C. Fehder","doi":"10.1287/stsc.2022.0170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0170","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship in the technology industry. Digitization has created vast economic opportunities in the technology sector and has lowered many barriers to entry, thus reducing traditional frictions regarding entrepreneurship and potentially increasing opportunities for female founders. However, anecdotal evidence has suggested that female technology founders are rare and that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics roles. Based on individual career histories collected from more than 42 million U.S.-based LinkedIn profiles, including more than 1.3 million founders, we explore whether there are higher rates of female founders in technology companies relative to other industries. Our analysis revealed the following: (1) Females were only half as likely as males to found businesses in the technology industry. (2) Females were less likely to found successive businesses (i.e., serial founders), which was even more pronounced in the technology industry. (3) When we used the gender gap in labor force participation as a baseline, the gender gap in technology entrepreneurship was particularly large, even compared with other male-dominated industries (e.g., construction). (4) The gender gap in technology entrepreneurship was driven by lower rates of entrepreneurship by females in lower positions in the organizational hierarchy. In contrast, females who reached the C-suite in technology sectors were 16% more likely to found firms compared with their female C-suite counterparts in nontechnology industries. Combined, the results provide a nuanced view of the gender gap in entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":45295,"journal":{"name":"Strategy Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49243478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

See You in Your Backyard: Multipoint Contact, Firm’s Capacity and Capability, and Technological Expansion 《后院见:多点接触、公司的能力和技术拓展》

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-08-29 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0174

You-Ta Chuang, David H. Weng, Chia-Hung Wu, K. Thomson

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Structural Causal Modeling of Managerial Interventions: What If Managers Had Not Intervened by Doing This? 管理干预的结构因果模型：如果管理者没有通过这样做进行干预怎么办？

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Strategy Science Pub Date : 2022-07-26 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0169

Gwendolyn K. Lee, R. Bettis

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