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The research of investment and financing of wind power

2011-04-22T16:37:45Z

18.51.2.130:

{{Summary
|title=The research of investment and financing of wind power
|authors=Xu Yang, Zhixin Qian, Zhizhong Wang
|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WNWEC.2010.5673593
|journal=2010 2nd World Non-Grid-Connected Wind Power and Energy Conference, WNWEC 2010, November 5, 2010 - November 7, 2010
|pub_date=2010
|doi=10.1109/WNWEC.2010.5673593
|pub_open_access=
}}

The research of investment and financing of wind power

2011-04-22T16:36:38Z

18.51.2.130: yang et al new article

{{Summary
|title=The research of investment and financing of wind power
|authors=Xu Yang, Zhixin Qian, Zhizhong Wang
|journal=2010 2nd World Non-Grid-Connected Wind Power and Energy Conference, WNWEC 2010, November 5, 2010 - November 7, 2010
|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WNWEC.2010.5673593
|pub_date=2010
|subject=
|pub_open_access=
|tags=
|summary=
|relevance=}}

User:Benjamin Mako Hill

2011-04-22T16:35:55Z

18.51.2.130: /* New Summaries */ added yang et al

{{User
|name=Benjamin Mako Hill
|photo=Mako yellow-280px.png
|location=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
}}
== About Me ==

I have more webpages than I can reasonably count and my current policy to to try to not aggravate this problem so I'm going to be brief. I have many webpages where I talk a lot about myself, my projects, and other things that I do. If you are interested in this, you can read any of the pages linked below:

* [http://mako.cc My Homepage]
* [http://mako.cc/copyrighteous Copyrighteous] (My Blog)
* [http://mako.cc/contact.html My Up-To-Date Contact Information]

== Summaries ==

Readings summaries can take time. As a result, I write summaries of my summaries over at [http://identi.ca/acamako the microblogging site identi.ca]. None are longer than 140 characters!

At the moment, I think the best way to help AcaWiki is to help seed it with content so that scholars so that they spend time here and start contributing. As a result, I spend almost all of my time on AcaWiki writing summaries of academic articles and books

You can find my summaries here:

* [[User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Summaries]]: A complete list of summaries that I've written, sorted by author.
* [[User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Generals]]: My full [[AcaWiki:Prelims|PhD general examinations]] reading list of which I've prepared summaries of most.

Many of these summaries are rough. I tend to write them once, fix obvious spelling mistakes, and then publish them. I do not, in most cases, even reread my summaries before posting them. As a result, the text is likely to be flawed in a number of ways. Please keep that in mind and don't hesitate to improve them! Indeed, that's why I'm sharing them here!

=== New Summaries ===

These are summaries I have written recently and not sorted into the lists above yet:

* Zhang and Zhu (2010): [[Group size and incentives to contribute: A natural experiment at Chinese Wikipedia]] [http://blog.mikezhang.com/files/chinesewikipedia.pdf]
* Benkler (2009): [[Law, policy, and cooperation]]
* Astley (1985): [[Administrative science as socially constructed truth]]
* Markus and Robey (1988): [[Information technology and organizational change: Causal structure in theory and research]]
* Burrell and Morgan (1979): [[Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis: Elements of the sociology of corporate life]]
* Orlikowski and Baroudi (1998): [[Studying information technology in organizations: Research approaches and assumptions]]
* de Vugt (2010): [[Dare to edit! – the politics of Wikipedia the politics of Wikipedia]]
* Pentzold (2010): [[Imagining the Wikipedia community: What do Wikipedia authors mean when they write about their "community"?]]
* Gaio et al. (2009): [[Wikibugs: Using template messages in open content collections]]
* Ashton (2011) [[Awarding the self in Wikipedia: Identity work and the disclosure of knowledge]]
* Currie and Moretti (2003): [[Mother's education and the intergenerational transmission of human capital: Evidence from college openings]]
* Dee (2004): [[Are there civic returns to education?]]
* Ludwig and Miller (2007): [[Does Head Start improve children's life chances? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design]]
* Angrist and Lavy (1999): [[Using Maimonides' rule to estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement]]
* Yang et al. (2010): [[The research of investment and financing of wind power]]

=== Read But Unwritten ===

These are summaries I have not written here but hope to write soon. I use this list as a sort of running todo list:

* Meyer (2005): [[Can performance studies create actionable knowledge if we can't measure the performance of the firm?]]
* Kerr (1975): [[On the follow of rewarding A, while hoping for B]]
* Gibbons (1998): [[Incentives in organizations]]
* Geier et al. (2006): [[Unit bias]] [http://sciencethatmatters.com/archives/35]

== Zotero Integration ==

I've written a little [[wikipedia:Citation style language|citation style language]] file that one can import into [http://zotero.org Zotero]. Detailed instructions on installation and use are online here:

:[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Zotero integration]]

== My Thoughts about AcaWiki ==

To my knowledge, AcaWiki is the only freely-licensed, collaboratively-edited, repository for summaries of academic articles. That's why I'm here. That said, it has a number of problems I'd like to see fixed:

# '''Outreach''' -- Most of the work on AcaWiki seems to be technical in nature. ''AcaWiki is not a technical problem.'' If we can convince 20 PhD students reading for [[AcaWiki:Prelims|qualifying or general exams]] in different field to post the summaries ''they are already making'' to this wiki, we will have created the single best resource of academic paper summaries anywhere. I'm trying to do my part! You should to!
# <strike>'''CAPTCHAs''' -- The reCAPTCHAs are ''extremely'' annoying. They should be shown for anonymous editors who are adding links and for new user registrations and never for new users. The current situation is madness and are driving away contributions.</strike>
# <strike>'''Templates''' -- There are errors or problems in the templates for the forms I see no (documented?) way to edit these.</strike>
# '''Impoverished metadata''' -- The metadata here is pretty weak and creating yet-another-bibliographic-metadata-format seems like a very poor way to go. AcaWiki should store rich metadata but should store it in an existing format like Zotero RDF (freely available and with all the semantic-web-goodness we want). Making that transition is probably a big step, but I think it's worth it.
# '''Forms for subpages''' -- Forms should be smarter and not try to force the template used in a particular namespace onto people using subpages. Try to edit [[User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Zotero integration]] to get an idea of what the problem is.
# <strike>'''www.acawiki.org''' -- This should redirect to acawiki.org! Right now it just gives pages not found links!</strike>

Please edit [[User talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|my talk page]] and lets talk about this!

User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Zotero integration

2011-04-22T16:32:40Z

18.51.2.130: /* Installing AcaWiki Summary CSL */

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=== Installing AcaWiki Summary CSL ===

You'll need to have [http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero] installed first. Once you've done that, here's how to install and use it:

# Download [http://projects.mako.cc/source/?p=acawiki-csl;a=blob_plain;f=acawiki.csl;hb=HEAD acawiki.csl].
# Add the CSL file to Zotero:
## Open Zotero.
## Click on the '''gear icon'''.
## Click on '''Preferences.'''
## Click on the '''Styles''' icon in the preferences dialog.
## Click on the '''+''' button.
## Find the file you have downloaded on your local disk drive and click '''Open.'''
# Add the style as an export default for AcaWiki:
## From within the preferences dialog (see above), click the '''Export''' icon.
## Click on the '''+''' button.
## Type ''acawiki.org'' in the box under '''Domain/Path'''.
## Select '''AcaWiki Summary'' in the button box under '''Output Format'''.

=== Using AcaWiki Summary CSL ===

Using AcaWiki Summary CSL is easy but it means you shouldn't create things with a normal [[Special:AddData/Summary|Post A Summary]] link. Instead, you should create a page the old fashioned way:

# Check to make sure the article you want to create doesn't exist yet!
# Navigate to a page of the form "http://acawiki.org/My_article_title_here" except use the actual title.
** You can use spaces instead of underscores (the wiki will convert them).
** What I do is just type "acawiki.org/" in my URL bar and then paste the title of the article out of Zotero into the URL bar. That seems to work!
# You will be taken to a page that says ''There is currently no text in this page''. There will be a link on that page that says, '''edit this page'''. Click on that link!
# You will see a big blank text box. Now just drag your post out of Zotero into the box. It should automatically paste in a properly formatted AcaWiki summary template.
# Edit the template as you see fit.
# Either paste in the summary after '''|summary=''' or click '''Save'''. In a two step process, you can then click the '''Edit''' link to edit and add the summary.
# Rinse. Repeat.

A genealogical approach to organizational life chances: The parent-progeny transfer among Silicon Valley law firms, 1946-1996

2011-04-22T16:15:53Z

18.51.2.130:

{{Summary
|title=A genealogical approach to organizational life chances: The parent-progeny transfer among Silicon Valley law firms, 1946-1996
|authors=Damon J. Phillips
|tags=entrepreneurship,genealogy,organizational ecology,organizational capabilities,organization theory
|summary=Phillips offers a genealogical approach to understanding organizational life chances. Building and speaking to a literature on spinoffs, Phillips looks at the transfer or routines between organizations using a "parent-progeny" metaphor and model. The hypotheses, and the analysis that tests them, argue that organizations will transfer of resources (through a person) will result in decreased life chances for the parent and increased life changes for the child. The results support this basic suggestion but are contingent on the position that the person moving held in the firm being transferred from and on the time since the parenting event. Parents from failing firms and progeny of multiple parents correspond with lower life chances.

The paper attempts to provide a bridge from a more population ecological literature on the consequences of transferring resources between parents and progeny with a literature on the effect of founders affiliations on firm success (e.g., Burton, Sorensen, and Beckman's (2002) [[Coming from good stock: Career histories and new venture formation]]).

Phillips offers 7 hypotheses (many have subparts) on the effect on parents and children and on several contingencies:

* H1a: The greater the parent-progeny transfer (the higher the previous rank of founders), the greater the likelihood of parent failure. ('''Support''')
* H1b: The parent failure rate due to a parenting event increases with the similarity the parent's and offspring's scope or niche overlap. ('''Support''')
* H2: The likelihood of parent failure will decrease over time.
* H3a: The greater the proportion of founding members coming from parent organizations, the lower the likelihood of failure (as compared to ''de novo'' organizations). ('''Support''')
* H3b: An offspring's likelihood of failure is lowest in its earliest years. ('''Support''')
* H4: The greater the P-P transfer, the the lower the likelihood of progeny failure. ('''Support''')
* H5: Progeny firms whose founders recently departed from failed parent organizations are more likely to fail. ('''Support''')
* H6a: The larger the parent, the lower chance of offspring failure. ('''Support''')
* H6b: Parent size is less advantageous the greater the greater the transfer is (i.e., the higher the previous rank of the founders). ('''Support''')
* H7a: The older the parent, the lower the chance of offspring failure. ('''No support''')
* H7b: Parent age is less useful the greater the transfer is. (''No support''')
* H8: Progeny with multiple parents have a higher likelihood of failure. ('''Moderate support''')

Empirically, the paper uses the same dataset on Silicon Valley law firms as Phillips and Zuckerman's (2001) [[Middle-status conformity: Theoretical restatement and empirical demonstration in two markets]]. He tracks the movements of partners, named partners, and associates in law firms as they move between firms.
|relevance=Phillips article has been cited more than 140 times since it was published 8 years ago. Most of these citations have come in the literature on entrepreneurship and on founding teams and spinoffs in particular.
|journal=Administrative Science Quarterly
|pub_date=2002
|subject=Sociology
|journal_vol=47
|pub_open_access=No
}}