美国密歇根大学（安娜堡）吴迅（Brian Wu）助理教授学术报告 2013-06-24 题 目：Organizational Constraints to Adaptation: Intra-Firm Asymmetry in the Locus of Coordination.报告人：美国密歇根大学安娜堡分校 吴迅助理教授时 间：2013年6月25日（星期二）上午10:30-12:00地 点：管理学院313室吴迅（Brian Wu）博士介绍：吴迅博士是美国密歇根大学安娜堡分校罗斯商学院战略系助理教授，于2007年获得宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院博士学位。吴博士当前主要研究方向为：公司战略、公司能力、创新与公司家精神等。吴博士从2006年至今已经在管理学顶级期刊Strategic Management Journal、Management Science上发表学术论文7篇，还有数篇论文处于Organization Science在审或修改状态。欢迎广大师生参加！附：Abstract: This study examines the sources of heterogeneity in the ability of firms to adapt to an exogenous, industry-wide demand shock. Such a shock differs from technology-based change in that the magnitude and composition of customer preferences undergoes a rapid and sudden shift. We aim to understand the sources of heterogeneous incumbent firm abilities to adapt to such a change. We propose that alternate pre-shock organization designs can influence post-shock adaptation ability via the different coordination challenges they present: namely, the need to coordinate across and within product-related activities (inter- and intra-product coordination). Building on an information processing view of the firm, we investigate the influence of this locus of coordination on a firm’s post-shock adaptation ability. We hypothesize that inter-product coordination can impede adaptation, with this effect enhanced by greater product complementarity and mitigated by greater organizational grouping. We find empirical support for our predictions and conceptual mechanisms using a large-sample panel dataset of firms in the U.S. defense industry during the years 1996 through 2006.