Users of products and services often make product-related innovations that become taken-for-granted product features. Early research in this area found that while product users--be they firms or individuals--innovated, it was existing manufacturers who commercialized the innovation. Users...

Exemplary teaching is of limited use unless other teachers can learn from the exemplars and improve their teaching effectiveness. One objective of this paper is to use The Attentional & Interpersonal Style (TAIS) inventory to identify and analyze the characteristics of exemplary university...

Over the past twenty years, research on social embeddedness and socially embedded exchange has grown to occupy a prominent place in organizational theory research. But while a large volume of research makes reference to the construct of social embeddedness, few papers have attempted to assess...

Mobile information systems (IS) hold great promise to support organizational processes. Clear guidelines, however, of how to design effective mobile IS in support of organizational processes have not been developed. Based on earlier research that emphasizes the importance of fit between...

We review William Starbuck and Moshe Farjoun's Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster, a book that provides a unique look at a rare empirical phenomenon: the total failure of a high-risk, high-reward organization. The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) is a...

We develop and test a multi-level theoretical framework for understanding country-, industry-, syndicate-, firm- and project-specific factors shaping the capital structure and broader risk profile of a quintessentially Asian form of foreign direct investment ("FDI") called project finance....

We examine the possible existence of a 'gateway' effect between the consumption of three different substances--cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana--among adolescents. A gateway effect exists when consumption of one substance increases the likelihood of subsequent initiation of consumption of...

Using cross-channel mail survey, we analyze two dimensions to information sharing within supply chain networks (n=254, senior-level supply chain managers). The first dimension--connectivity or technology--has been heavily investigated and found to have significant impact on firm profitability....

Supply chain management implies an increased reliance on closer buyer/supplier relationships. This study used a multi-method (survey and interview) approach to determine the nature of alliance management in modern supply chains. One point regarding the present status of alliance management in...

This paper joins the strategic management research literature with the entrepreneurial research literature by developing a real options framework to explain and predict corporate venture capital investment decisions. Corporate venture capital is viewed as containing a series of real options. The...