Business Group Affiliation and Firm Search Behavior in India: Responsiveness and Focus of Attention

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Vissa, Balagopal; Greve, Henrich R.; Chen, Wei-Ru
• 署名单位: INSEAD Business School
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0475
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 696-712
• 关键词: organizational form; problemistic search; business groups

摘要

This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian. firms affiliated with business groups and unaffiliated. firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated. firms, business group-affiliated (BG-affiliated) firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration levels and more likely to respond to low performance in the market domain. We. find support for an external orientation of BG-affiliated. firms and. find that group affiliation determines the responsiveness to performance feedback in different search domains. The. findings suggest a need to add considerations of organizational form and governance to the theory of organizational search.