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作者:Bettis, Richard A.
作者单位:Southern Methodist University
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作者:Hoskisson, Robert E.; Hitt, Michael A.; Hill, Charles W. L.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要:The degree of risk taking by lower level (division) managers is expected to vary depending upon the extent and type of diversification. Limited diversification, when coupled with M-form adoption and decentralization, induces managerial risk taking. Notwithstanding, the control system elaborations (e.g., strategic business unit [SBU] structures) to facilitate information processing as firms increase diversification, extensively diversified firms reach limits such that control loss reduces manag...
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作者:Harris, Sidney E.; Katz, Joseph L.
作者单位:Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要:In this paper, we consider whether there existed a significant and systematic relationship between firm performance and information technology investment intensity in the home office operation of 40 systems technology leaders in the life insurance industry, 1983-1986. It is hypothesized that in top performance insurance firms (1) information technology costs as a proportion of total operating costs were higher, and (2) information technology costs as a proportion of premium income were lower, ...
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作者:Burgelman, Robert A.
作者单位:Stanford University
摘要:This paper presents an intraorganizational ecological perspective on strategy making and examines how internal selection may combine with external selection to explain organizational change and survival. The perspective serves to illuminate data from a field study of the evolution of Intel Corporation's corporate strategy. The data, in turn, are used to refine and deepen the conceptual framework. Relationships between induced and autonomous strategic processes and four modes of organizational ...