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Subject(s)
Entrepreneurship
Keyword(s)
scientific teams, collaboration, university, invention, knowledge
We examine the effects of team structure and experience on the impact of inventions produced by scientific teams. Whereas multidisciplinary, collaborative teams have become the norm in scientific production, there are coordination costs commensurate with managing such teams. We use patent citation analysis to examine the effect of prior collaboration and patenting experience on invention impact of 282 patents granted in Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) research between 1998 and 2010. Our results reveal that team experience outside the domain may be detrimental to project performance in a setting where the underlying knowledge changes. In stem cell science, we show that interdepartmental collaboration has a negative effect on invention impact. Scientific proximity between members of the team has a curvilinear relationship, suggesting that teams consisting of members with moderate proximity get the highest impact. We elaborate on these findings for theories of collaboration and coordination, and its implications for radical scientific discoveries.
© 2013 Strategic Management Society
Volume
7
Journal Pages
122–137
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Keyword(s)
executive coaching
With permission of Emerald
Volume
27
Journal Pages
2.13–2.17
Subject(s)
Finance, accounting and corporate governance
Keyword(s)
syndicated loans, hold-up, lending relationships, business cycle
JEL Code(s)
G14, G21, G22, G23, G24
Volume
43
Journal Pages
175–195
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Keyword(s)
distributed teamwork, webinar, executive education
With permission of Emerald
Volume
27
Journal Pages
6.11–6.17
Subject(s)
Marketing
Keyword(s)
loyalty programs, multi-vendor loyalty program, stand-alone programs, customer retention, relationship marketing, switching barriers, transaction cost economics
Volume
23
Journal Pages
305–323
Subject(s)
Management sciences, decision sciences and quantitative methods
Keyword(s)
Self-control, pro-social behavior, public good experiment, temptation
The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public good game with treatments that vary the degree to which money is abstract (merely numbers on-screen) or tangible (tokens or cash). We also include psychometric measures of self-control and impulsivity. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find in the treatments that render money more tangible a stronger positive association between cooperation and self-control—and a stronger negative association between cooperation and impulsivity. Our results shed light on the conditions under which self-control matters for cooperation.
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Pages
38
ISSN (Print)
1866–3494
Subject(s)
Finance, accounting and corporate governance
Secondary Title
Handbook on systemic risk
Pages
247–282
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment; Finance, accounting and corporate governance
Keyword(s)
Banking, Eurozone crisis
Subject(s)
Strategy and general management
Keyword(s)
Business strategies, implementing strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, organizational culture, organizational design, startup
The case describes the management practices and leadership principles of a media monitoring company. The company was founded in 1997 with the objective to become a leader in the German media monitoring market. In 2012, the company had achieved the goal the three founders had envisaged. They had acquired a dedicated group of employees, a tightly knit, family-like unit, which Landau called a “community of values.” These values were the basis of his leadership style, emphasizing participation, continuity, transparency, a continuous improvement to raise product quality, customer, and family orientation. The company governance structure, and facilities all reflected this core philosophy as well. During the past years a new set of challenges – namely, change of media usage triggered by iPhones and iPads, social media, and do-it-yourself media monitoring software - were threatening the company’s success and Lothar Landau was concerned whether his creation was prepared for the next 15 years.
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