主题：A leap in the dark: The role of internal and external attentions on firm performance in the AI industry

主讲人：肖书锋，北京大学光华管理学院博士候选人

时间：1月7日（周四）16:30

地点：经管学院B352

主办单位：武汉大学经济与管理学院工商管理系

讲座主要内容：

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry has emerged and attracted substantial attention due to the rapid technological progress. Drawing upon the attention-based view (ABV), we may theorize that a firm’s organizational attention is a key determinant of technological performance in the development of AI industry. However, how a firm’s internal and external attentions influence its technological performance remain unclear. In particular, external media attention, including coverage (more or fewer), content (AI or non-AI related), and attitude (favorable and unfavorable), can serve as boundary conditions to enhance or reduce the effect of organizational attention. Using a sample of US publicly listed firms in the AI industry from 1992 to 2018, we find that AI-related media coverage and unfavorable non-AI-related media attitude strengthen the positive effect of internal attention on technological performance, whereas non-AI-related media coverage and unfavorable AI-related media attitude weaken the effect. In addition, favorable AI-related media attitude does not show significant impact, whereas favorable non-AI-related media attitude weakens the positive effect.

主讲人简介：

肖书锋，北京大学光华管理学院博士候选人。主要有3个研究方向，包括：1）基于企业行为理论解释企业创新战略；2）关注新兴行业（例如人工智能行业）中的企业内外部注意力的影响；3）基于中国和美国国家专利局专利数据多方面研究国家竞争力，企业竞争力，和知识流动。目前，相关科研成果已被Journal of Business Ethics接收一篇，四篇科研成果发表于《南开管理评论》等权威中文期刊，还有一篇论文被AOM会议提名最佳学生主导论文。其他工作论文也处与审稿或者即将投稿的过程中。

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