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In: Social & environmental accountability journal, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 69-70
ISSN: 2156-2245
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In: Social & environmental accountability journal, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 69-70
ISSN: 2156-2245
In: Social & environmental accountability journal, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 2156-2245
In: Social & environmental accounting journal, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 26-27
In: Futures, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 163-169
In: Organization science, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 133-151
ISSN: 1526-5455
Theories of innovation and technical change posit that inventions that combine knowledge across technology domains have greater impact than inventions drawn from a single domain. The evidence for this claim comes mostly from research on patented inventions and ignores failed patent applications. We draw on insights from research into institutional gatekeeping to theorize that, to be granted, patent applications that span technological domains must have higher quality than otherwise comparable, narrower applications. Using data on failed and successful patent applications, we estimate an integrated, two-stage model that accounts for this differential selection. We find that more domain-spanning patent applications are less likely to be approved, and that controlling for this differential selection reduces the estimated effect of knowledge recombination on innovative impact by about one-third. By conceptualizing the patent-approval process as a form of institutional gatekeeping, this paper highlights the institutional underpinnings of and constraints on the innovation process.The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2016.1106 .
In: Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-50
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In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 233-256
ISSN: 1930-3815
In this article, we attempt to resolve the tension between two conflicting views on the role of specialization in workers' careers. Some scholars argue that specialization is a net benefit that allows workers to get ahead, while others argue that broad experience across several domains is the only way to be truly exceptional. We use rich longitudinal data from 1974 to 2008 on the careers of Indian Administrative Service officers, members of the Republic of India's elite bureaucratic service, to test both these hypotheses. We find that specialization benefits officers throughout their career. We distinguish between skill-based and signal-based mechanisms that relate specialization to promotion, by exploring the match (or lack thereof) between the skills officers acquire and the jobs to which they are promoted, and we find that both mechanisms operate, but at different points in the career. Specialization is rewarded later in officers' careers because of the skills they acquire by specializing. Earlier in their careers, skills are less important; it appears that specialization benefits officers because it is a signal of general ability. These results contradict studies that find that specialization helps early in careers but fades with experience, but they also call into question the idea that specialization always reflects accumulated skill. Our results support both types of theories but suggest important scope conditions for when one mechanism or the other is likely to dominate.
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 233-256
ISSN: 0001-8392
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 116
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Sustainability Accounting and Accountability, S. 327-344
In: Social & environmental accounting journal, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 28-30
In: SAIS review, Band 21, Heft 1, S. vii-viii
ISSN: 1088-3142
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 627
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 1013
ISSN: 1938-274X