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1. What Drives Exploration? Convergence and Divergence of Exploration Tendencies Among Alliance Partners and Competitors

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Management research has alluded to organizational and environmental conditions that drive firms' tendencies to explore versus exploit. We complement this research by developing theory on vicarious learning to explain how a firm adjusts its own exploration level based on the exploration levels of its alliance partners and competitors. Using panel data on 180 electronics firms publicly traded in the U.S., we reveal an inverted U-shaped association between the firm's exploration tendency and the exploration levels of its partners and competitors. Convergence is explained by imitation and legitimation, while divergence is associated with risk perception and specialization in the knowledge domain. We further show how the convergence of the exploration tendency becomes stronger under firm-specific uncertainty but weaker when the exploration patterns exhibited by the firm's partners and competitors are incoherent. Finally, counter to expectations, we show that this convergence is weakened by the technological proximity of the firm's competitors. Our findings inform research on vicarious learning and the antecedents of exploration by underscoring the role of interdependence in firms' exploration tendencies

Duysters, Geert; Lavie, Dovev; Sabidussi, Anna; Stettner, Uriel;
2020
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2. What drives exploration? : convergence and divergence of exploration tendencies among alliance partners and competitors

Duysters, Geert; Lavie, Dovev; Sabidussi, Anna; Stettner, Uriel;
2020
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 22 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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3. Network dynamics and knowledge transfer in virtual organizations

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel;
2015
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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4. Making a difference : thoughts on management scholarship from the editorial team

Kastanakis, Minas; Robinson, Sarah; Tsalavoutas, Yannis; Fernando, Mario; Jonczyk-Sédès, Claudia; Stettner, Uriel; Thanos, Ioannis; Aharonson, Barak; Potočnik, Kristina; Zhang, Haina; Erz, Antonia; Wallpach, Sylvia von; Diedrichs, Andreas; Leupold, Christopher R.; Breen, Liz;
2019
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 15 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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5. Following the code : spillovers and knowledge transfer

Gandal, Neil; Naftaliev, Peter; Stettner, Uriel;
2017
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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6. Is Oprah contagious? : the depth of diffusion of demand shocks in a product network

Carmi, Eyal; Oestreicher-Singer, Gal; Stettner, Uriel; Sundararajan, Arun;
2017
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;

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7. Network dynamics and knowledge transfer in virtual organisations

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel;
2016
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 7 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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8. Ambidexterity Under Scrutiny : Exploration and Exploitation Via Internal Organization, Alliances, and Acquisitions

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Prior research on ambidexterity has limited its concern to balancing exploration and exploitation via particular modes of operation. Acknowledging the interplay of tendencies to explore versus exploit via the internal organization, alliance, and acquisition modes, we claim that balancing these tendencies within each mode undermines firm performance because of conflicting routines, negative transfer, and limited specialization. Nevertheless, by exploring in one mode and exploiting in another, i.e., balancing across modes, a firm can avoid some of these impediments. Thus, we advance ambidexterity research by asserting that balance across modes enhances performance more than balance within modes. Our analysis of 190 U.S.-based software firms further reveals that exploring via externally oriented modes such as acquisitions or alliances, while exploiting via internal organization, enhances these firms’ performance

Stettner, Uriel; Lavie, Dovev;
2014
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9. Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations : Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion

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Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of face-to-face communication, such organizations face a particular set of constraints in their exposure to knowledge and know-how. This “liability of dispersion” increases the importance of the architecture of network ties that undergird the distinct development efforts, the embedded social structures, and the particular relationships involved in their product-generating efforts. In this paper, we examine whether particular network structures foster knowledge transfer among distinct open-source projects. We conjecture that Star developers — actors characterized by increasing levels of embeddedness and the associated ability to form ties with several projects within a network — serve boundary-spanning functions that facilitate an organization's ability to collect, assimilate, and apply external information. We find support for this conjecture in our investigation of a network of open-source software projects and developers compiled from a dataset drawn from Sourceforge.net. We also show that becoming part of a giant network component is associated with relatively large changes in project performance

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel;
2014
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10. Network dynamics and knowledge transfer in virtual organizations : overcoming the liability of dispersion

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel;
2014
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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