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Does complexity deter customer‐focus?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012-02)
Economic models suggest that firms use a simple cost‐benefit calculation to evaluate customer requests for new product features, but an extensive organizational literature shows the decision to implement innovation is more ...
Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1996-12)
This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios, we ...
Communicating Negative Hire Decisions to Applicants: Fulfilling Psychological Contracts
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
This study demonstrates that characteristics of rejection letters combine in a complex manner to affect impressions of the organization, and likelihood of re-applying to and of patronizing the organization. Specifically, ...
Are network effects really all about size? The role of structure and conduct
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013-03)
Rooted in neoclassical economics, network effects research has revolved around size, arguing that the more users a network has, the more valuable that network will be to each user. I argue that a network's structure ...
The State of the HR Profession
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-05)
We want to create a new narrative about the human resource (HR) profession. HR professionals have often been plagued with self‐doubts, repeatedly re‐exploring HR's role, value, and competencies. If HR is to fully (and ...
Absolute and relative resources as determinants of international acquisitions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-02)
Although it is established that firms sometimes expand abroad to augment their capabilities, previous studies have generally focused on technological determinants of foreign expansion. We analyze capability-seeking aspects ...
Structural homophily or social asymmetry? The formation of alliances by poorly embedded firms
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-09)
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to ...
Back to basics: Learning about employee energy and motivation from running on my treadmill
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
In an effort to understand how to optimize employee energy at work, we borrow from the sports physiology literature to develop and test several concepts that have now been used in more than 75 large and small organizations ...
Model integration and a theory of models
(Elsevier, 1993-01)
Model integration extends the scope of model management to include the dimension of manipulation as well. This invariably leads to comparisons with database theory. Model integration is viewed from four perspectives: ...