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作者：Lubinski, Christina; Wadhwani, R. Daniel
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Southern California; University of the Pacific
摘要：Research Summary We explore multinational strategy formation in the context of rising economic nationalism. Specifically, we examine how firms develop strategies to capitalize on the historical and aspirational attributes of national identity. Analyzing the histories of two German multinationals in late colonial India, we find that these firms engaged in geopolitical jockeying to delegitimize rival multinationals and position themselves as complementary to the economic and political goals of t...
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作者：Sinha, Paresha N.; Jaskiewicz, Peter; Gibb, Jenny; Combs, James G.
作者单位：University of Waikato; University of Ottawa; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Ottawa
摘要：Research Summary Imprinting theory predicts that organizations are imprinted with multiple intersecting imprints that persist. Evidence suggests, however, that imprints are sometimes reprioritized or modified, implying that they can be strategically managed. We draw upon rhetorical history research and an in-depth historical case study of New Zealand's Gallagher Group to describe how one firm managed its imprints. Our inductive theorizing links historically imprinted strategic guideposts to de...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas S.; De Massis, Alfredo; Foss, Nicolai J.; Frattini, Federico; Jones, Geoffrey; Silverman, Brian S.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Lancaster University; Zhejiang University; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Polytechnic University of Milan; Harvard University; University of Toronto
摘要：Research Summary The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. We discuss how and why history and historical research methods can enrich theoretical explanations of strategy phenomena. In addition, we introduce the notions of history-informed strategy research, distinguishing between the dimensions of history to theory and history in theory and discussing various under-utilized methods that may further work on h...
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作者：Agarwal, Rajshree; Braguinsky, Serguey; Ohyama, Atsushi
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Osaka; Hitotsubashi University
摘要：Research Summary We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth outcomes of path dependencies as firms evolve across periods of single versus shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced top manage...
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作者：Arikan, Ilgaz; Arikan, Asli M.; Shenkar, Oded
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Kent State University; Kent State University Kent; Kent State University Salem; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Research Summary This paper explores why and how nation-dyadic history impacts aggregated firm decisions involving cross-border activities (acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances). We contextualize history and illustrate the negative effect of historical conflict on cross-border deals. Nation-dyads with historical conflict incorporate negative sentiments into their social and collective memories and national identities. Members of society assume the socially constructed national identity ...
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作者：Suddaby, Roy; Coraiola, Ego; Harvey, Charles; Foster, William
作者单位：University of Victoria; University of Alberta; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：Research Summary The capacity to manage history is an important but undertheorized component of dynamic capabilities. We argue that the capacity to manage the interpretation of the past, in the present for the future, is a critical ability that informs a firm's ability to successfully enact changes needed to adapt to disruptive technology. We identify and elaborate three specific cognitive interpretations of history-history as objective fact, history as interpretive rhetoric, and history as im...
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作者：Sasaki, Innan; Kotlar, Josip; Ravasi, Davide; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Lancaster University; University of Warwick; Polytechnic University of Milan; University of London; University College London; Aalto University
摘要：Research Summary This paper examines how strategy-makers attempt to reconcile change initiatives with organizational values and principles laid out long before, still encased in strategic identity statements such as corporate mottos and philosophies. It reveals three discursive strategies that strategy-makers use to establish a sense of continuity in time of change: elaborating (transferring part of the content of the historical statement into a new one), recovering (forging a new statement ba...
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作者：Pillai, Sandeep D.; Goldfarb, Brent; Kirsch, David A.
作者单位：Bocconi University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research Summary We explore the effectiveness of economic experimentation as a learning mechanism through a historical exploration of the early automobile industry. We focus on a particular subset of economic experiments, called strategic pivots, that requires irreversible firm commitments. Our quantitative analysis suggests that strategic pivoting was associated with success. We then use historical methods to understand whether this association is reasonably interpreted as a causal link. We i...
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作者：Lamberg, Juha-Antti; Peltoniemi, Mirva
作者单位：University of Jyvaskyla
摘要：Research Summary We explore the qualitative differences in entries and exits over time. Using qualitative and quantitative data on 96 firms over 200 years, we study industry evolution from the perspective of individual decision-making situations. Our historical and statistical analyses reveal the vital role of technology investments in determining firm outcomes, and the technological, institutional and governance dynamics that lead firms to invest or to abstain. Our main theoretical and method...
