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作者:Luo, YD
作者单位:University of Miami
摘要:This study examines environmental and organizational factors that influence a multinational enterprise's (MNE's) capability exploitation and building in a complex foreign market. Analysis of data from 167 MNE subunits in the People's Republic of China suggests that capability exploitation and capability building are inversely associated with environmental complexity and industrial uncertainty. Business cultural specificity impedes capability exploitation but not capability building. While capa...
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作者:Finkelstein, S; Haleblian, J
作者单位:Dartmouth College; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要:Drawing on work from transfer theory at the individual unit of analysis, this study examines positive and negative transfer effects in organization acquisitions. Data from 96 organizations reveal that, consistent with theories on positive transfer of industry knowledge, similar acquisitions are positively related to acquisition performance. In addition. consistent with theory on negative transfer of past acquisition knowledge, second acquisitions underperform first acquisitions, particularly w...
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作者:Greve, HR
作者单位:BI Norwegian Business School
摘要:Managers evaluate the organizational performance by comparing it with historical aspiration levels, and are more likely to make strategic changes when the performance falls below the aspiration level. Historical aspiration levels can be updated with different speed, because a focus on current performance will lead to quickly adjusting aspiration levels where historical performance has low weight, while a focus on past performance will lead to slowly adjusting performance levels where the curre...
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作者:Simons, T
作者单位:Cornell University
摘要:This paper focuses on the perceived pattern of alignment between a manager's words and deeds, with special attention to promise keeping, and espoused and enacted values. It terms this perceived pattern of alignment Behavioral Integrity. The literatures on trust, psychological contracts, and credibility combine to suggest important consequences for this perception, and literatures on hypocrisy, social accounts, social cognition, organizational change, and management fashions suggest key anteced...
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作者:Wiggins, RR; Ruefli, TW
作者单位:Tulane University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要:Competitive advantage is a key concept in strategic management research for a number of reasons-not the least of which is that an avowed consequence of its attainment is held to be superior economic performance. However, few prior empirical studies have directly and systematically documented the incidence or prevalence of persistent superior economic performance. The research reported here is based on empirical studies of a large number of industry sample for which longitudinal data were strat...
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作者:Wolfe, RA; Putler, DS
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Santa Clara University
摘要:The purpose of stakeholder management is to facilitate our understanding of increasingly unpredictable external environments, thereby facilitating our ability to manage within these environments. We argue that a powerful implicit assumption within the stakeholder literature-that priorities within role-based stakeholder groups are relatively homogeneous-blurs our understanding of organization-stakeholder relationships. Two important and related areas of concern are presented. The first involves...