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Garvía
19th-Century Spanish Lotteries in a Comparative Perspective.
Kogut,
Siggelkow
Evolution towards Fit
Van den Bulte & Lilien
Van den Bulte, Lievens & Moenaert
Market Knowledge, Social Capital and Absorptive Capacity:
An Analysis of Knowledge Spillovers within Marketing Departments
19th-Century Spanish Lotteries in a Comparative Perspective.
Roberto Garvía
Universidad Carlos III of
Paper available from: mailto:garvia@polsoc.uc3m.es
Abstract
This paper explains how the two dominant 19th
Centuries European lotteries (lottos and Klassenlotterien) were operated. A special emphasis is given
to the Spanish lotteries. It is suggested that the peculiar characteristics of
the latter probably made group-playing a more pervasive phenomenon in
Bruce Kogut
Management Department
The
mailto:kogut@wharton.upenn.edu
John
Paul
Management Department
The
mailto:macduffie@wharton.upenn.edu
Charles
Ragin
Department
of Sociology
Northwestern
University
mailto:cragin@northwestern.edu
Paper available from: mailto:macduffie@wharton.upenn.edu
Abstract
The
diffusion of practices poses the problem of credit assignment: identifying the
path of causality between interacting practices and their effects. Because of the complex relationship between
cause and effect, the adoption of better practices is frequently characterized
as fads. We apply Ragin’s
(2000) fuzzy logic methodology to identify high performance configurations in
the 1989 data set of
Evolution towards
Fit
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Management
Department
The
mailto:siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu
Paper available
from: mailto:siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu
Abstract
This
paper proposes four constructs, thickening, patching, coasting,
and trimming that can be used as building blocks to describe
organizations’ developmental paths towards configurations and organizations’
transitions between configurations. The
constructs are linked to the creation and subsequent elaboration of organizations’
core elements. We use the four
constructs to describe two ideal types of development termed thin-to-thick
and patch-by-patch. Within the
context of a longitudinal study of The Vanguard Group we illustrate the
constructs and offer an operationalization of the
concept of a core element. Future
research opportunities based upon the suggested constructs and the ideal types
of development are discussed.
Christophe Van den Bulte
The
Gary L. Lilien
The
Paper available from: vdbulte@wharton.upenn.edu
Market Knowledge, Social Capital and Absorptive Capacity:
An Analysis of Knowledge Spillovers within Marketing Departments
Christophe Van den Bulte
The
Annouk Lievens
Rudy K. Moenaert
Paper available from: vdbulte@wharton.upenn.edu
Abstract
This
paper investigates how marketing professionals’ intra-departmental social
network is associated with their knowledge about customers, competitors, and
technology. There are three findings. First, we find no consistent effects for
ego-network density or central brokerage position, the two network
characteristics that have dominated social capital research. Second, however,
we find stronger effects for social network exposure,
i.e. access, to others’ knowledge, a rather under-researched facet of social
capital which we model using network autoregression.
These two findings support recent conjectures that brokerage positions and
trust need not always lead to superior outcomes and that, in some contexts,
social capital is better conceived as access to others’ resources. Our third
finding is that individuals’ extant knowledge has a positive effect on learning
from peers in the technology domain, but a negative effect in the customer and
competitor domains. This suggests that
the professionals studied were realizing positive returns on their own
intellectual capital for learning outside their primary task environment, but
negative returns for learning within their primary task environment.
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