内部创业
操作化
产品创新
产品(数学)
业务
奖学金
新产品开发
创业
营销
管理
经济
财务
哲学
几何学
数学
认识论
经济增长
作者
Weiyi Ng,Eliot Sherman
出处
期刊:Organization Science
[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
日期:2022-11-01
卷期号:33 (6): 2300-2321
被引量:1
标识
DOI:10.1287/orsc.2021.1530
摘要
Recent scholarship has established several ways in which external hiring—versus filling a role with a comparable internal candidate—is detrimental to firms. Yet, organizational learning theory suggests that external hires benefit firms: by importing knowledge that is unavailable or obscured to insiders and applying it toward experimentation and risky recombination. Accordingly and consistent with studies of learning by hiring and innovation, we predict that external hires are at greater risk of intrapreneurship than internal hires. We test this prediction via a study of product managers in large technology companies. We use machine learning to operationalize intrapreneurship by comparing product manager job descriptions with the founding statements of venture-backed technology entrepreneurs. Our research design employs coarsened exact matching to balance pretreatment covariates between product managers who arrived at their roles internally versus externally. The results of our analysis indicate that externally hired product managers are substantially more intrapreneurial than observably equivalent internal hires. However, we also find that intrapreneurial product managers have a higher turnover rate, an effect that is primarily driven by external hires. This suggests that hiring for intrapreneurship may be a difficult strategy to sustain. Funding: The authors acknowledge financial support from London Business School, the National University of Singapore [Grant WBS R-313-000-128-133], and a dissertation grant from the Ewing Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1530 .
科研通智能强力驱动
Strongly Powered by AbleSci AI