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作者:Costa, Luis Almeida; Cool, Karel; Dierickx, Ingemar
作者单位:Universidade Nova de Lisboa; INSEAD Business School
摘要:The resource-based' view focuses on unique resources as the fundamental sources of competitive advantage and superior profits. We use a game-theoretic model to analyze the impact of the deployment of unique resources on product market competition, and the impact of unique resources and sustainable competitive advantages on profits when the competitive implications of resource deployment are taken into account. We find that some of the core propositions of the resource-based view do not necessa...
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作者:Graffin, Scott D.; Boivie, Steven; Carpenter, Mason A.
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Arizona; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:This study develops and tests predictions regarding factors that influence early-stage CEO evaluation. We suggest that contextual elements of the CEO succession process will influence the heuristics that directors employ to aid in their early evaluation of a CEO because traditional performance metrics, such as firm performance, are less diagnostic of CEO quality in the first years of their tenure. Broad empirical support for our theoretical arguments is shown in a sample of Fortune 1000 firms....
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作者:Marquis, Christopher; Lee, Matthew
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is a strategic activity commonly managed through a specific, differentiated organizational structurethe corporate foundationthat formalizes and constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of Fortune 500 firms from 1996 to 2006 shows that characteristics of senior management and directors affec...