Browsing by Author "Laplume, André"

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    Home country factors and the decision to internationalize technology-based new ventures: a multi-level study of early-stage entrepreneurs
    (2014) Pathak, Saurav; Muralidharan, Etayankara; Laplume, André
    Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of over 25,000 nascent and new entrepreneurs from 2005-2008 and 45 countries, we predict their internationalization decisions based on three domestic institutions. Results indicate that stronger regulatory environment, smaller home market, and weaker innovation environment favor internationalization. Interaction results indicate that strong regulatory environment helps overcome the negative effect of a large home market towards internationalization and that it also facilitates internationalization by aiding to acquire resources necessary for innovation that may be lacking domestically. Finally, a larger home market size reduces the need to internationalize to compensate for lacking innovation resources.
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    Influence of institutional profiles on time to recall
    (2015) Muralidharan, Etayankara; Bapuji, Hari; Laplume, André
    This paper aims to understand why firms expedite or delay product recall decisions involving international sourcing. Design/methodology/approach: this paper combines US toy recall data from the Consumer Products Safety Commission database for the period from 1988to 2011 with World Economic Forum data on institutional environments to predict the effect the host country conditions have on recall timing decisions.
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    Technological innovation and adopter self-construal
    (2015) Fazel, Hesham; Laplume, André; Muralidharan, Etayankara
    In this paper, we theorize that individuals who value independence and distinctiveness identify more with social identities as a result of adopting sustaining technological innovations. Conversely, individuals who value interdependence may become more independent as a result of adopting disruptive technological innovations. We argue that successive adoptions of technological innovation may expand and contract the breadth of adopters' collective identities. We discuss the implications of this conceptual paper and suggest avenues for future research at the nexus of technological innovation and cultural change.
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    The influence of self and group-enhancing innovations on user self-construal: an experimental study
    (2014) Fazel, Hesham; Laplume, André; Muralidharan, Etayankara
    This research paper introduces the concepts of self-enhancing and group-enhancing innovations and explains how they may affect user self-construal differently. It is argued that self-enhancing innovations decrease the interdependent self-construal of the user, whereas, group-enhancing innovations decrease the independent self-construal of the user. Pre-test was conducted to identify of the concepts of self-enhancing and group-enhancing innovations. Then a pilot test using a randomized pre-test/post-test design was conducted to pretest the study research design. Employing a sample of consumers in a randomized pre-test/post-test design, the study presents results supporting the hypothesized effect of self-enhancing innovation, and provides partial support for the hypothesized effects of group-enhancing innovation. We discuss the implications of this research for the nexus of business and society as manifested by the interaction of technology and culture.
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    The relationship between type of organization, learning, and product failures
    (2014) Muralidharan, Etayankara; Laplume, André
    Prior studies on product failures have examined their consequences for the performance of firms, typically showing them to be negative. Failures leading to product recalls and their negative consequences have become an issue of contemporary concern, prompting more attention to antecedents. This conceptual paper presents an analysis of the antecedents of product failures using strategic choice theory and organizational learning perspectives. The Miles and Snow typology is used to explain that prospectors can be expected to have the most incidents of product failures, learn least from them, and respond reactively toward them. Defenders should have the least incidences of product failures, learn most from them, and respond proactively toward them. Finally, analyzers should fall somewhere between prospectors and defenders. Thus, the trauma inherent in product failure events provides organizations of each type varying opportunities for learning, leading to different expected rates and responses.