The authors would like to thank their editor, Daniel Levinthal, two anonymous reviewers, and the attendants of several conferences (e.g., Organization Science Winter Conference 2014, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2014) for their thoughtful guidance and constructive comments. Further thanks go to Linda Argote, Erich Barthel, Florian Bauer, Daniella Laureiro-Martínez, Patrick Oehler, Patrick Reinmoeller, Isabell M. Welpe, and Ralf Wilden for their valuable suggestions and support. Parts of the project were completed while the first author was a visiting research scholar in the Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Knowledge at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. The first author would like to thank the faculty in the organizational behavior and theory area of the Carnegie Mellon University and Linda Argote in particular for their excellent support. Last, the authors wish to thank the participants of the study and all persons involved in the project, such as the student assistants, who played a supporting role in conducting the experiment, and the programmer, Sebastian Bendeich, who did an excellent job in programming the computer system. The data for the study were collected at experimenTUM, laboratory for experimental economics, Technische Universität München, Germany.
The authors dedicate the article to the late Michael D. Cohen, who contributed to strengthening this study from the very beginning onward. Beyond providing personal and scholarly inspiration, the authors highly appreciate Michael Cohen’s many excellent suggestions and sound advice, which were invaluable for the progress of this study.
