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The impact of founders' professional-education background on the adoption of open science by for-profit biotechnology firms / Waverly W. Ding in Management science, Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) . - pp. 257-273 Titre : The impact of founders' professional-education background on the adoption of open science by for-profit biotechnology firms Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Waverly W. Ding, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 257-273 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Entrepreneurship  Founder  background  Professional  education  Open  science  Diffusion  of  innovation  TMT Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : This paper investigates the effect of founders' professional-education background on the adoption of an open-science technology strategy, using a sample of 512 young biotechnology firms. After controlling for founders' prior work experience and other organizational and environmental factors, I find that firms with proportionally more Ph.D.-holding entrepreneurs on the founding team have a higher probability of adopting open science. In addition, founders' educational background can mitigate the constraint of organizational environments on strategy. A crowded technological niche provides a more challenging environment for firms to implement open science, due to higher scooping risks. The deterrent effect, however, of such a high-risk environment is smaller among firms founded by proportionally more Ph.D.-holding entrepreneurs. There is also some evidence of a stronger effect of founders' educational background on open science in an institutional environment in which open science has yet to become the industry norm. This finding is consistent with and complements the growing body of research that emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial background in developing knowledge about new-venture strategy and structure. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/2/257 [article] The impact of founders' professional-education background on the adoption of open science by for-profit biotechnology firms [texte imprimé] / Waverly W. Ding, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 257-273. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 2 (Février 2011) . - pp. 257-273 Mots-clés : Entrepreneurship  Founder  background  Professional  education  Open  science  Diffusion  of  innovation  TMT Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : This paper investigates the effect of founders' professional-education background on the adoption of an open-science technology strategy, using a sample of 512 young biotechnology firms. After controlling for founders' prior work experience and other organizational and environmental factors, I find that firms with proportionally more Ph.D.-holding entrepreneurs on the founding team have a higher probability of adopting open science. In addition, founders' educational background can mitigate the constraint of organizational environments on strategy. A crowded technological niche provides a more challenging environment for firms to implement open science, due to higher scooping risks. The deterrent effect, however, of such a high-risk environment is smaller among firms founded by proportionally more Ph.D.-holding entrepreneurs. There is also some evidence of a stronger effect of founders' educational background on open science in an institutional environment in which open science has yet to become the industry norm. This finding is consistent with and complements the growing body of research that emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial background in developing knowledge about new-venture strategy and structure. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/2/257

The impact of information technology on academic scientists' productivity and collaboration patterns / Waverly W. Ding in Management science, Vol. 56 N° 9 (Septembre 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 9 (Septembre 2010) . - pp. 1439-1461 Titre : The impact of information technology on academic scientists' productivity and collaboration patterns Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Waverly W. Ding, Auteur ; Sharon G. Levin, Auteur ; Paula E. Stephan, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp. 1439-1461 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Diffusion  Innovation  Technology  Life  sciences  Professional  labor  markets  Gender Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : This study investigates the impact of information technology (IT) on productivity and collaboration patterns in academe. Our data combine information on the diffusion of two noteworthy innovations in IT—BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS)—with career-history data on research-active life scientists. We analyzed a random sample of 3,114 research-active life scientists from 314 U.S. institutions over a 25-year period and find that the availability of BITNET on a scientist's campus has a positive effect on his or her productivity and collaborative network. Our findings also support the hypothesis of a differential effect of IT across subgroups of the scientific labor force. Women scientists and those working at nonelite institutions benefit more from the availability of IT in terms of overall research output and an increase in the number of new coauthors they work with than do men or individuals at elite institutions. These results suggest that IT is an equalizing force, providing a greater boost to productivity and more collaboration opportunities for scientists who are more marginally positioned in academe. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/9/1439 [article] The impact of information technology on academic scientists' productivity and collaboration patterns [texte imprimé] / Waverly W. Ding, Auteur ; Sharon G. Levin, Auteur ; Paula E. Stephan, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 1439-1461. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 9 (Septembre 2010) . - pp. 1439-1461 Mots-clés : Diffusion  Innovation  Technology  Life  sciences  Professional  labor  markets  Gender Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : This study investigates the impact of information technology (IT) on productivity and collaboration patterns in academe. Our data combine information on the diffusion of two noteworthy innovations in IT—BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS)—with career-history data on research-active life scientists. We analyzed a random sample of 3,114 research-active life scientists from 314 U.S. institutions over a 25-year period and find that the availability of BITNET on a scientist's campus has a positive effect on his or her productivity and collaborative network. Our findings also support the hypothesis of a differential effect of IT across subgroups of the scientific labor force. Women scientists and those working at nonelite institutions benefit more from the availability of IT in terms of overall research output and an increase in the number of new coauthors they work with than do men or individuals at elite institutions. These results suggest that IT is an equalizing force, providing a greater boost to productivity and more collaboration opportunities for scientists who are more marginally positioned in academe. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/9/1439