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

報告人：美國密歇根大學安娜堡分校 吳迅助理教授

時 間：2013年6月25日（星期二）上午10:30-12:00

地 點：bwin必贏唯一官網(wǎng)313室

吳迅（Brian Wu）博士簡介：

吳迅博士是美國密歇根大學安娜堡分校羅斯商學院戰(zhàn)略系助理教授，于2007年獲得賓夕法尼亞大學沃頓商學院博士學位。吳博士當前主要研究方向為：公司戰(zhàn)略、企業(yè)能力、創(chuàng)新與企業(yè)家精神等。吳博士從2006年至今已經(jīng)在管理學頂級期刊Strategic Management Journal、Management Science上發(fā)表學術論文7篇，還有數(shù)篇論文處于Organization Science在審或修改狀態(tài)。

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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.