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美国密歇根大学(安娜堡)吴迅(Brian Wu)助理教授学术报告

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题 目:Organizational Constraints to Adaptation: Intra-Firm Asymmetry in the Locus of Coordination.


报告人:美国密歇根大学安娜堡分校 吴迅助理教授


时 间:2013年6月25日(星期二)上午10:30-12:00


地 点:管理学院313室


吴迅(Brian Wu)博士简介:


吴迅博士是美国密歇根大学安娜堡分校罗斯商学院战略系助理教授,于2007年获得宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院博士学位。吴博士当前主要研究方向为:公司战略、企业能力、创新与企业家精神等。吴博士从2006年至今已经在管理学顶级期刊Strategic Management Journal、Management Science上发表学术论文7篇,还有数篇论文处于Organization Science在审或修改状态。


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Abstract: This study examines the sources of heterogeneity in the ability of firms to adapt to an exogenous, industry-wide demand shock. Such a shock differs from technology-based change in that the magnitude and composition of customer preferences undergoes a rapid and sudden shift. We aim to understand the sources of heterogeneous incumbent firm abilities to adapt to such a change. We propose that alternate pre-shock organization designs can influence post-shock adaptation ability via the different coordination challenges they present: namely, the need to coordinate across and within product-related activities (inter- and intra-product coordination). Building on an information processing view of the firm, we investigate the influence of this locus of coordination on a firm’s post-shock adaptation ability. We hypothesize that inter-product coordination can impede adaptation, with this effect enhanced by greater product complementarity and mitigated by greater organizational grouping. We find empirical support for our predictions and conceptual mechanisms using a large-sample panel dataset of firms in the U.S. defense industry during the years 1996 through 2006.