Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
研究了企业集权程度如何影响卫星地点的组织复制，发现高度集权的企业其卫星地点的发明人族裔构成更接近母公司研发中心而非当地城市，且跨地点团队协作和内部人才流动会强化这种复制效应。
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities with little link to the inventor composition of their parent firms’ research and development headquarters. For highly centralized firms, by contrast, organizational reproduction has an explanatory power equal to half or more of the host city effect. Reproduction is strongest when a firm exhibits a hands-on approach to the satellite facility, such as cross-facility team collaboration or internal talent mobility. History: This paper has been accepted for the Organization Science Special Issue on Migration & Organizations. Funding: W. R. Kerr thanks the National Science Foundation, Harvard Business School, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for financial support that made this research possible. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.16070 .