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Intellectual capital or signal? The effects of scientists on alliance formation in knowledge-intensive industries

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In this article, a longitudinal analysis of more than 300 U.S. biotechnology firms between 1988 and 1999 suggests that scientists serve more than just a research function in knowledge-intensive industries.
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This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strategic alliance & Intellectual capital.

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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Unmixed signals: How reputation and status affect alliance formation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how incumbents in technology-driven industries are influenced by founders' reputation and status when considering strategic alliances with newly emerging firms, and they find support for their arguments based on panel data on alliances between pharma and biotech firms, using data on biotech scientists' research output (reputation) and university attended (status).
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From Sole Investigator to Team Scientist: Trends in the Practice and Study of Research Collaboration

TL;DR: This paper reviewed trends in the practice and study of research collaboration, focusing on journal publications in academic science and highlighted the increasing body of research that focuses instead on the possible costs of collaboration.
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A two-sided matching approach for partner selection and assessing complementarities in partners' attributes in inter-firm alliances

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a matching framework to study strategic alliances, taking a market perspective that explicitly incorporates key features of alliance formation: two-sided decision-making; quest for complementarities between indivisible and heterogeneous partner attributes; and competition on each side of the market for partners on the other side.
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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills: Ability, Motivation, Intervention, and the Pygmalion Effect

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of case-based critical thinking intervention on students' critical thinking skills (CTA) was investigated using a Solomon four-group design, and the results showed no significant between-subjects differences.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.
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Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences

TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
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Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of predictor scaling on the coefficients of regression equations are investigated. But, they focus mainly on the effect of predictors scaling on coefficients of regressions.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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