The Rejuvenation of Inventors Through Corporate Spinouts

References

• Abadie A, Imbens G (2002) Simple and bias-corrected matching estimators for average treatment effects. NBER Technical Working Paper 283, Cambridge, MA.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Abadie A, Drukker D, Herr JL, Imbens G (2004) Implementing matching estimators for average treatment effects in Stata. Stata J. 4(3):290–311.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Agarwal R, Echambadi R, Franco AM, Sakar MB (2004) Knowledge transfer through inheritance: Spinout generation, development and survival. Acad. Management J. 47(4):501–522.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Ahuja G, Lampert CM (2001) Entrepreneurship in the large corporation: A longitudinal study of how established firms create breakthrough inventions. Strategic Management J. 22(6–7):521–543.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Allen DG (2006) Do organizational socialization tactics influence newcomer embeddedness and turnover? J. Management 32(2):237–256.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Almeida P, Kogut B (1999) Localization of knowledge and the mobility of engineers in regional networks. Management Sci. 45(7):905–917.Link, Google Scholar
• Arora A, Ceccagnoli M, Cohen W (2008) R&D and the patent premium. Internat. J. Indust. Organ. 26(5):1153–1179.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Ashforth BE, Sluss DM, Harrison SH (2007) Socialization in organizational contexts. Hodgkinson GP, Ford JK, eds. International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 22 (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK), 1–70.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Augsdorfer P (2005) Bootlegging and path dependency. Res. Policy 34(1):1–11.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Bandura A (1977) Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psych. Rev. 84(2):191–215.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Banerjee PM, Campbell BA (2009) Inventor bricolage and firm technology research and development. R&D Management 39(5):473–487.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Basalla G (1988) The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK).Google Scholar
• Batel KA, Jackson SE (1989) Top management and innovations in banking: Does the composition of the top team make the difference? Strategic Management J. 10(S1):107–124.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Benner M, Tushman MI (2003) Exploitation, exploration, and process management: The productivity dilemma revised. Acad. Management Rev. 28(2):238–256.Google Scholar
• Benner M, Waldfogel J (2008) Close to you? Bias and precision in patent-based measures of technological proximity. Res. Policy 37(9):1556–1567.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Beyer JM, Hannah DR (2002) Building on the past: Enacting established personal identities in a new work setting. Organ. Sci. 13(6):636–652.Link, Google Scholar
• Brett JM (1984) Job transitions and personal and role development. Rowlan K, ed. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Vol. 2 (JAI Press, Greenwich, CT), 155–185.Google Scholar
• Cameron C, Trivedi PK (1998) Regression Analysis of Count Data (Econometric Society Monograph 30) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK).Crossref, Google Scholar
• Campbell BA, Ganco M, Franco AM, Agarwal R (2012) Who leaves and why to worry? Employee mobility, entrepreneurship and effects on source firm performance. Strategic Management J. 33(1):65–87.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Castilla EJ (2005) Social networks and employee performance in a call center. Amer. J. Sociol. 110(5):1243–1283.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Chao GT, O’Leary-Kelly AM, Wolf S, Klein HJ, Gardner PD (1994) Organizational socialization: Its content and consequences. J. Appl. Psych. 79(5):730–743.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Chesbrough HW (1998a) Inxight: Incubating a Xerox Technology Spinout (Harvard Business School Press, Boston).Google Scholar
• Chesbrough HW (1998b) PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout (Harvard Business School Press, Boston).Google Scholar
• Chesbrough HW (2002) Making sense of corporate venture capital. Harvard Bus. Rev. 80(3):90–99.Google Scholar
• Chesbrough HW (2003) The governance and performance of Xerox’s technology spin-off companies. Res. Policy 32(3):403–421.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Chesbrough HW (2006) Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK).Google Scholar
• Chesbrough H, Rosenbloom RS (2002) The role of the business model in capturing value from innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation’s technology spin-off companies. Indust. Corporate Change 11(3):529–555.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Christensen CM (1997) The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press, Boston).Google Scholar
• Cohen WM, Levinthal D (1990) Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Admin. Sci. Quart. 35(1):128–152.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Correidoira RA, Rosenkopf L (2009) Should the acquaintance be forgot? The reverse transfer of knowledge through mobility ties. Strategic Management J. 31(2):159–181.Google Scholar
• Dehejia RH, Wahba S (2002) Propensity score-matching methods for nonexperimental causal studies. Rev. Econom. Statist. 84(1):151–161.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Dokko G, Wilk SL, Rothbard NP (2009) Unpacking prior experience: How career history affects job performance. Organ. Sci. 20(1):51–68.Link, Google Scholar
• Fang C, Lee J, Schilling MA (2010) Balancing exploration and exploitation through structural design: The isolation of subgroups and organizational learning. Organ. Sci. 21(3):625–642.Link, Google Scholar
• Feldman DC (1981) The multiple socialization of organization members. Acad. Management Rev. 6(2):309–318.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Feldman DC (1989) Socialization, resocialization, and training: Reframing the research agenda. I. L. Goldstein and Associates, ed. Training and Development in Organizations (Frontiers of Industrial and Organizational Psychology) (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco), 376–416.Google Scholar
• Feldman MS (2000) Organizational routines as a source of continuous change. Organ. Sci. 11(6):611–629.Link, Google Scholar
• Fleming L (2001) Recombinant uncertainty in technological search. Management Sci. 47(1):117–132.Link, Google Scholar
• Fleming L (2002) Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: The story of Hewlett-Packard’s thermal ink-jet. Indust. Corporate Change 11(5):1059–1084.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Fleming L, Sorenson O (2004) Science as a map in technological search. Strategic Management J. 25(8–9):909–928.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Fleming L, Mingo S, Chen D (2007) Collaborative brokerage, generative creativity, and creative success. Admin. Sci. Quart. 52(3):443–475.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Fosfuri A, Rønde T (2009) Leveraging resistance to change and the skunk works model of innovation. J. Econom. Behav. Organ. 72(1):274–289.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Franco AM, Filson D (2006) Spinouts: Knowledge diffusion through employee mobility. RAND J. Econom. 37(4):841–860.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Gambardella A, Harhoff D, Verspagen B (2008) The value of European patents. Eur. Management Rev. 5(2):69–84.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Gompers P, Lerner J, Scharfstein D (2005) Entrepreneurial spawning: Public corporations and the genesis of new ventures, 1986 to 1999. J. Finance 60(2):577–614.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Groysberg B, Lee L-E, Nanda A (2008) Can they take it with them? The portability of star knowledge workers’ performance. Management Sci. 54(7):1213–1230.Link, Google Scholar
• Hagedoorn J, Cloodt M (2003) Measuring innovative performance: Is there an advantage in using multiple indicators? Res. Policy 32(8):1365–1379.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hamilton BH, Nickerson JA (2003) Correcting for endogeneity in strategic management research. Strategic Organ. 1(1):51–78.Crossref, Google Scholar
• He Z-L, Wong P-K (2004) Exploration vs. exploitation: An empirical test of the ambidexterity hypothesis. Organ. Sci. 15(4):481–494.Link, Google Scholar
• Heckman J (1979) Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica 47(1):153–161.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Heckman J, Navarro-Lozano S (2004) Using matching, instrumental variables, and control functions to estimate economic choice models. Rev. Econom. Statist. 86(1):30–57.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hilbe JM (2011) Negative Binomial Regression (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK).Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hirano K, Imbens G, Ridder G (2003) Efficient estimation of average treatment effects using the estimated propensity score. Econometrica 71(4):1161–1189.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Hoisl K (2007) Tracing mobile inventors—The causality between inventor mobility and inventor productivity. Res. Policy 36(5):619–636.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Huckman RS, Pisano GP (2006) The firm specificity of individual performance: Evidence from cardiac surgery. Management Sci. 52(4):473–488.Link, Google Scholar
• Imbens G (2004) Nonparametric estimation of average treatment effects under exogeneity: A review. Rev. Econom. Statist. 86(1):4–29.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Jokisaari M, Nurmi JE (2009) Change in newcomers’ supervisor support and socialization outcomes after organizational entry. Acad. Management J. 52(3):527–544.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Katz R (1981) Career Issues in Human Resource Management (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ).Google Scholar
• Katz R, Allen TJ (1982) Investigating the not invented here (NIH) syndrome: A look at the performance, tenure, and communication patterns of 50 R&D project groups. R&D Management 12(1):7–20.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Klepper S, Thompson P (2007) Spin-offs in high-tech industries: Motives and consequences. Malerba F, Brusoni S, eds. Perspectives on Innovation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK), 187–218.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Lai R, D’Amour A, Fleming L (2009) The careers and co-authorship networks of U.S. patent-holders, since 1975. Patent Network Dataverse, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard Business School, Boston. http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/12367UNF:5:daJuoNgCZlcYY8RqU+/j2Q==.Google Scholar
• Lanjouw JO, Schankerman M (2004) Patent quality and research productivity: Measuring innovation with multiple indicators. Econom. J. 114(495):441–465.Google Scholar
• Levinthal AD, March JG (1993) The myopia of learning. Strategic Management J. 14(1):95–112.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Lewin K (1951) Cartwright D, ed. Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers (Harper & Brothers, New York).Google Scholar
• Louis MR (1980) Surprise and sense making: What newcomers experience in entering unfamiliar organizational settings. Admin. Sci. Quart. 25(2):226–251.Crossref, Google Scholar
• March J, Schulz M, Xueguang Z (2000) The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA).Crossref, Google Scholar
• March JG (1991) Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organ. Sci. 2(1):71–87.Link, Google Scholar
• Markova G, Folger R (2012) Every cloud has a silver lining: Positive effects of deviant coworkers. J. Soc. Psych. 152(5):586–612.Crossref, Google Scholar
• McKendrick DG, Wade JB, Jaffe J (2009) A good riddance? Spin-offs and the technological performance of parent firms. Organ. Sci. 20(6):979–992.Link, Google Scholar
• Miller KD, Zhao M, Cantalone RJ (2006) Adding interpersonal learning and tacit knowledge to March’s exploration-exploitation model. Acad. Management J. 49(4):709–722.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Nelson RR, Winter RG (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA).Google Scholar
• Nystrom PC, Starbuck WH (1984) To avoid organizational crises, unlearn. Organ. Dynam. 12(4):53–65.Crossref, Google Scholar
• O’Reilly CA, Tushman ML (2004) The ambidextrous organization. Harvard Bus. Rev. 84(4):74–81.Google Scholar
• Palomeras N, Melero E (2010) Markets for inventors: Learning-by-hiring as a driver of mobility. Management Sci. 56(5):881–895.Link, Google Scholar
• Papke LE, Wooldridge M (2008) Panel data methods for fractional response variables with an application to test pass rates. J. Econom. 145(1–2):121–133.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Pfeffer J (1983) Organizational demography. Cummings LL, Staw BM, eds. Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 5 (JAI Press, Greenwich, CT), 299–357.Google Scholar
• Ramgopal P, Mathew M (2006) Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center: Getting inventions to the market. IBSCDC Case Study CCA0028, IBS Case Development Centre, Hyderabad, India.Google Scholar
• Rosenkopf L, Almeida P (2003) Overcoming local search through alliances and mobility. Management Sci. 49(6):751–766.Link, Google Scholar
• Rosenkopf L, Nerkar A (2001) Beyond local search: Boundary-spanning, exploration, and impact in the optical disk industry. Strategic Management J. 22(4):287–306.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Schein EH (1968) Organizational socialization and the profession of management. Indust. Management Rev. 9:1–16.Google Scholar
• Singh J, Agrawal AK (2011) Recruiting for ideas: How firms exploit the prior inventions of new hires. Management Sci. 57(1):129–150.Link, Google Scholar
• Singh J, Fleming L (2010) Lone inventors as sources of technological breakthroughs: Myth or reality? Management Sci. 56(1):41–56.Link, Google Scholar
• Song J, Almeida P, Wu G (2003) Learning-by-hiring: When is mobility more likely to facilitate interfirm knowledge transfer? Management Sci. 49(4):351–365.Link, Google Scholar
• Sorensen JB, Stuart TE (2000) Aging, obsolescence, and organizational innovation. Admin. Sci. Quart. 45(1):81–112.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Starr JA, Fondas N (1992) A model of entrepreneurial socialization and organization formation. Entrepreneurship Theory Practice 17(1):67–67.Google Scholar
• Stuart TE, Podolny JM (1996) Local search and the evolution of technological capabilities. Strategic Management J. 17(S1):21–38.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Taormina RJ (1997) Organizational socialization—A multidomain continuous process. Domains Organ. Socialization 5(1):29–47.Google Scholar
• Trajtenberg M (2005) Recombinant ideas: The mobility of inventors and the productivity in research. Proc. 2005 CEPR Conf., Munich, Germany.Google Scholar
• Tsang EWK, Zahra SA (2008) Organizational unlearning. Human Relations 61(10):1435–1462.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Venkatraman N (1989) The concept of fit in strategy research: Toward verbal and statistical correspondence. Acad. Management Rev. 14(3):423–444.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Weick KE, Quinn RE (1999) Organizational change and development. Annual Rev. Psych. 50:361–386.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Weick KE, Roberts KH (1993) Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight deck. Admin. Sci. Quart. 38(3):357–381.Crossref, Google Scholar