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作者：Parmigiani, Anne; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：University of Oregon; Duke University
摘要：Theories of the firm raise conflicting arguments about how complementarities between two or more components affect firms' knowledge and production boundaries. Traditional arguments in the boundaries of the firm literature suggest that firms will tend to produce sets of complementary components internally, while more recent modularity studies argue that firms can outsource to gain flexibility. We resolve these views by examining concurrent sourcing, which arises when firms both make and buy the...
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作者：Marcel, Jeremy J.
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Critics of the CEO/COO duo have stressed that this arrangement burdens the firm with increased costs and decreases the CEO's effectiveness. This study adopts an upper echelon perspective to argue that the presence of a COO may also create TMT-level information-processing benefits that can improve firm performance in certain conditions. Data from a sample of 153 firms in five industries highlight a strong positive relationship between the presence of a COO and two established measures of firm p...
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作者：Lin, Zhiang (John); Yang, Haibin; Arya, Bindu
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
摘要：Bridging the resource-based view and the institutional perspective, this study explores the performance consequences of firms' alliance partner selections by examining the interactions of resource complementarity and institutional associations (reflected through both societal and network status) between the firm and its partner. The integrative framework suggests that a joint consideration of resource complementarity and status effects, as well as important firm- and environmental-level contin...
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作者：Leiblein, Michael J.; Madsen, Tammy L.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Santa Clara University
摘要：Many studies argue that the continual creation of new ideas by small and young firms steadily destroys the competitive positions of their larger, more established rivals. Despite this attention, empirical results relating firm size to innovation remain exceedingly fragile. This study proposes three reasons for the empirical inconsistencies it? the literature: that small and large firms differ in their: (1) stock of technological experiences, (2) use of own- and partner-firm experiences, and (3...
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作者：Vorhies, Douglas W.; Morgan, Robert E.; Autry, Chad W.
作者单位：University of Mississippi; Cardiff University; Oklahoma City University
摘要：We report on two studies (a single and a multi-industry) that empirically investigate a nomological network of relationships between strategic business unit product-market strategy (differentiation, cost-focus, and product-market scope), marketing capabilities (architectural and specialized capabilities, as well as their integration), and business unit performance (market effectiveness and subsequent one-year objective cash flow), along with a series of controls. Addressing important lacunae i...
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作者：Chen, Dong; Park, Seung Ho; Newburry, William
作者单位：Loyola Marymount University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Organizational control scholars have recently noted how control use is not singular in organizations, but rather, different types of control are used to achieve different purposes. In international joint ventures (IJVs), we suggest that output, process, and social control are exercised by both foreign and local parent firms. We then hypothesize that a parent firm's usage of these three control types is influenced by its resource contributions. Using a sample of IJVs in China, we find that prop...
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作者：Grahovac, Jovan; Miller, Douglas J.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：We create an industrial organization hype model to relate resources to the spread between product market demand and marginal cost. We define competitive advantage as the cross-sectional differential. ill this spread, and performance as the longitudinal differential between what a firm appropriates in the product market and what it paid ill the factor market. With factor markets imposing different costs oil the innovator and potential imitator(s), competitive advantage, performance, and high re...
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作者：Pierce, Lamar
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This study examines shakeouts in the context of business ecosystems. Market turbulence generated by core firm decisions in competing differentiated ecosystems can generate financial losses and exit for complementary niche market firms. I develop hypotheses predicting which niche markets will suffer larger losses and be more susceptible to shakeouts, and how core firm decisions will drive complementor peformance and survival. I then apply these hypotheses to brand-based differentiated ecosystem...
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作者：Gulati, Ranjay; Lavie, Dovev; Singh, Harbir
作者单位：Harvard University; Technion Israel Institute of Technology; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We examine the conditions under which the prior partnering experience of firms contributes to value creation in their new alliances. We propose that prior experience with the same partners, that is, 'partner-specific experience,' provides greater benefits than 'general partnering experience' that encompasses all prior alliances with any partner. We further explore some of the boundary conditions for the effects of partner-specific experience. We suggest that the effect of partner-specific expe...
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作者：Uotila, Juha; Maula, Markku; Keil, Thomas; Zahra, Shaker A.
作者单位：Aalto University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The literature suggests that established firms need to balance their exploration and exploitation activities in order to achieve superior performance. Yet, previous empirical research has modeled this balance as the interaction of orthogonal activities. In this study, we show that there is a trade-off between exploration and exploitation and that the optimal balance between exploration and exploitation depends upon environmental conditions. Using a novel methodology to measure the relative exp...
