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ItemNo Preview AvailableIncome inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-03)Rising inequality is one of the grand societal challenges of our time. Yet, its effects on firms - including multinational enterprises (MNEs) - and their operations have not been widely examined by IB scholars. In this study, we posit that income inequality within a country is positively associated with the incidence and severity of crime experienced by businesses. Further, we propose that this relationship will be negatively moderated by social cohesion (in the form of greater societal trust and lower ethno-linguistic fractionalization) in these countries, such that social cohesion helps to offset the negative impacts of inequality on crime against businesses. We test these hypotheses using a comprehensive data set of 114,000 firms from 122 countries and find consistent support for our theses. Our findings, which are robust to different alternative variables, model specifications, instrumentation, and estimation techniques, unpack the intricate ways through which inequality affects businesses worldwide and the associated challenges to MNEs. They also offer important managerial and policy insights regarding the consequences of inequality and potential mitigation mechanisms. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41267-022-00535-5.
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ItemEditorial: Virtual books, person-books and new media artefacts: The expanding remit of the Organization Studies review section(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2022-11-01)
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ItemFrom Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2023-04-01)Increasingly we are faced with broad societal challenges that encourage us to rethink existing institutions. Yet many people also want to preserve institutions they cherish. This tension points to the need for change that can erode or discontinue unsustainable or problematic aspects of institutions while also maintaining what is sacred and valued. In this paper we ask how can organizations deinstitutionalize taken-for-granted practices while also preserving the institution? We answer this question by exploring how Trout Unlimited deployed visual and discursive tactics to push out unsustainable catch-and-harvest fly fishing practices and insert new catch-and-release practices. Our primary theoretical contribution is a model of repair-focused deinstitutionalization, illustrating how custodians utilize three forms of work to respond to threats—mending, caring, and restoring—all with an eye on deinstitutionalization via repair rather than disruption. Importantly, we show how the construct of repair is multipurpose, not limited to maintenance strategies, but can also be a catalyst for change. In addition, we extend research on deinstitutionalization by presenting a multimodal approach that goes beyond discourse, with particular attention to visuality and show how different modalities present different affordances in longer-term repair efforts.
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ItemHow Consumer Orchestration Work Creates Value in the Sharing Economy(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2021-10-14)Sharing economy platforms have become increasingly popular, but many platforms do not create all the value that is possible because consumers face challenges while cocreating their experiences. The authors situate the origin of these challenges in the sharing economy’s hybrid cocreation logics, which combine competing communal and transactional logics. Using a qualitative study of Couchsurfing, a platform for sharing free accommodation, the authors find that consumers engage in orchestration work to overcome cocreation roadblocks and extract greater benefits from sharing economy platforms. This orchestration work consists of many actions reflected in four overarching mechanisms: consumer-to-consumer alignment, rewiring relations, trust investment, and network experimentation. The authors connect these mechanisms to known sources of value for firms (i.e., complementarities, efficiency, lock-in, and novelty) to make recommendations for how platform firms can foster consumer orchestration work and unlock the full value of consumer cocreation in the sharing economy.
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ItemThe Effect of Knowledge Decomposability on Technological Exploration in Technological Acquisitions(Academy of Management, 2017)We investigate the effect of the acquiring firm’s knowledge-base decomposability on its post-acquisition technological exploration. We develop arguments to explain how organizational variations in a firm’s capability to understand the interdependencies between internal knowledge elements affect the generation of exploratory technologies from technological acquisitions. We also examine how the malleability and size of the acquired knowledge base compensate the magnitude of this effect. Our findings suggest that firms with a moderate understanding of the interdependencies between internal knowledge elements (i.e., with a near-decomposable knowledge base) generate the most exploratory technologies from technological acquisitions. We also find that the magnitude of this effect can be enhanced by acquiring knowledge bases with higher malleability, or with a larger size.
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ItemFamily Structure and Peasants Entrepreneurship: Empirical Analysis Based on CTVS Data(China Industrial Economics Press, 2017)Many scholars explore rural entrepreneurship behavior from the perspective of individual traits and external environment. In fact, rural entrepreneurship behavior is deeply influenced by family factors. How family structure affects rural entrepreneurship behavior is still an unexplored research question. Based on family capital theory and by using data of Chinese Thousand Village Survey (CTVS) in 2016, this paper tries to figure out the relationship between families structure and rural entrepreneurship, and gets the following conclusions. 1. The elite background of rural family, ie. family member holding village cadre title, being a party member, or regarded as respectable person, will significantly improve the peasant’s entrepreneurial activities; while as soon as the family structure is broken, ie. Divorce, disability of siblings, kids or parents, will significantly decrease the possibility of peasant’s entrepreneurial activities. 2. Peasants in elite families are more inclined to choose opportunity-oriented entrepreneurship, and those in disintegration families are more inclined to choose survival-oriented entrepreneurship. 3. The regional GuanXi culture plays a significant moderating role between elite family and peasants’ entrepreneurial behavior. Peasants in elite families are more inclined to start new business in the areas with strong GuanXi culture. This paper analyses the internal mechanism of Chinese rural entrepreneurial behavior in economic transition period, which can help to explore the family factors and their mechanism of encouraging peasants’ entrepreneurial behavior. It has a theoretical contribution to promote the new development of rural entrepreneurship theory paradigm.
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ItemCEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation(WILEY, 2022-12-13)We examine how CEO narcissism affects firm innovation ambidexterity—the relatively balanced development in existing domains through exploitative innovation and in new domains through exploratory innovation. We theorize that firms led by more narcissistic CEOs are less likely to achieve innovation ambidexterity than those led by less narcissistic CEOs. Drawing on the trait activation theory, we further argue that this negative relationship is strongest when the CEO's power is intermediate and when the firm's reputation in the market is intermediate. Our analyses of a large-scale onsite survey collected from 132 Chinese firms, matched with their archival patent information, support our hypotheses. Our study first sheds new light on the existing literature on the influence of firm managers on innovation ambidexterity by considering their different personalities. Second, this study contributes to the strategic leadership research on CEO narcissism by extending its implications to innovation ambidexterity as a new organizational outcome. Third, our study indicates that narcissistic CEOs' priority orders to chase the two conflicting needs—that is, the need to dominate decision-making and the need for acclaim—vary in different scenarios. This finding thus challenges the assumption in prior CEO narcissism research that the behavioral manifestations of narcissistic personalities' different facets are the same regardless of the contextual scenarios.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA brighter vision of the potential of open science for benefiting practice: A ManyOrgs Proposal(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08-30)Guzzo et al. (2022), in their focal article express concerns that rewarding open science practices, particularly in scholarly publishing, may harm the practical relevance of our research. They go on to urge greater reliance on conceptual replication over direct or exact replication to verify claims in our field. Although we concur with the majority of their recommendations, their prescriptions nevertheless do not fully address the deeper issue of publication and outcome reporting bias traceable to insufficient resources. Other sciences have effectively addressed this resource problem via crowdsourcing, large-scale collaborations, and multi-site replication (both conceptual and direct). Such initiatives are a pragmatic, if challenging to implement, solution to problems that face many areas of science such as ours (e.g., ensuring sufficient statistical power, assessing the generalizability and replicability of effects, spurring the uptake of open science practices, promoting diversity and inclusivity). Here, we propose that IO psychologists create such an initiative that primarily services practice. We tentatively call this initiative ‘ManyOrgs’. We also clarify how this open science initiative complements Guzzo et al.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA brighter vision of the potential of open science for benefiting practice: A ManyOrgs Proposal(Cambridge University Press, 2022)Guzzo et al. (2022), in their focal article express concerns that rewarding open science practices, particularly in scholarly publishing, may harm the practical relevance of our research. They go on to urge greater reliance on conceptual replication over direct or exact replication to verify claims in our field. Although we concur with the majority of their recommendations, their prescriptions nevertheless do not fully address the deeper issue of publication and outcome reporting bias traceable to insufficient resources. Other sciences have effectively addressed this resource problem via crowdsourcing, large scale collaborations, and multi-site replication (both conceptual and direct). Such initiatives are a pragmatic, if challenging to implement, solution to problems that face many areas of science such as ours (e.g., ensuring sufficient statistical power, assessing the generalizability and replicability of effects, spurring the uptake of open science practices, promoting diversity and inclusivity). Here, we propose that IO psychologists create such an initiative that primarily services practice. We tentatively call this initiative ‘ManyOrgs’. We also clarify how this open science initiative complements Guzzo et al.