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作者：Kim, Heeyon; Kim, Bo Kyung
作者单位：Cornell University; Yonsei University
摘要：Research summary This article examines how proximity to high-status neighbors enables lower-status firms to engage in aspirational pricing. While prior studies have focused on associations based on bilateral agreements, we argue that mere spatial proximity to other high-status firms creates perceived associations, which positively affects the focal firm's aspirational pricing. Furthermore, middle-status firms are most likely to engage in aspirational pricing because they are sufficiently simil...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Ploog, Joe N.
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Research Summary Freemium products require widespread diffusion for their success. One way to do this is by incorporating social features (e.g., multiplayer functionality, virtual collaboration, ridesharing), which can generate network effects and result in a product becoming a superstar. However, social features can be a double-edged sword: When demand potential for freemium products is large, social features can significantly boost a product's appeal resulting in more adoption, more usage, a...
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作者：Vaara, Eero; Fritsch, Laura
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Research Summary: The purpose of this introduction to the SMS collection is to take stock of advances in language-based analyses of strategic processes and practices with an eye on the theoretical and methodological insights and opportunities. After a review of the articles included, we develop a framework that identifies four perspectives ranging from the more micro to the macro: (a) microlevel conceptual basis of strategy discourse, (b) use of language in strategy work processes in their soc...
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作者：Parmigiani, Anne; Irwin, Jennifer; Lahneman, Brooke
作者单位：University of Oregon; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：Research Summary This study investigates how dual-purpose technical and relational capabilities influence two types of product innovation: component and full product. We consider product modification, manufacturing, supplier relationship, and customer relationship capabilities, analyzing their interactions and interrelationships through an inductive study set in the motorhome industry. We find patterns between capabilities and types of product innovations and then use a descriptive qualitative...
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作者：Toh, Puay Khoon; Ahuja, Gautam
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Cornell University
摘要：Research Summary We examine how and when integration of process and product components within a firm's innovation portfolio increases firm returns. Strategy literature argues that integration enhances the firm's appropriation of returns from innovations. We evaluate this argument recognizing that integration is but one of multiple appropriation tools; firms can also use other (e.g., scale-based) mechanisms to enhance appropriation. Using new measures of integration based on textual coding of p...
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作者：Chondrakis, George; Melero, Eduardo; Sako, Mari
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Oxford
摘要：Research Summary Although the link between coordination requirements and vertical integration is theoretically well established, empirical tests of this relationship are hard to implement due to the simultaneous determination of both variables. In this study, we take advantage of regulatory changes in patent prosecution in the United States to provide plausibly causal evidence linking increases in coordination requirements with insourcing. Moreover, we examine the role of plural sourcing, that...
