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作者：Wang, Heli C.; He, Jinyu; Mahoney, Joseph T.
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：The resource-based view of the firm emphasizes the role of firm-specific resources, especially firm-specific knowledge resources, in helping a firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. However, the deployment of firm-specific knowledge often requires key employees to make specialized human capital in vestments that are not easily redeployable to other settings. Thus, ill the absence of effective safeguards and trust building devices, employees with foresight may be reluctant to make s...
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作者：Durand, Rodolphe; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Hanken School of Economics
摘要：Causation is still poorly understood in strategy research, and confusion prevails around key concepts such as competitive advantage. In this paper, we define epistemological conditions that help dispel some of this confusion and provide a basis for more dei;eloped approaches. In particular, we argue that a counterfactual approach-one that builds on a systematic analysis of 'what-if' questions-can advance our understanding of key causal mechanisms in strategy research. We offer two concrete met...
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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：Xia, Jun; Boal, Kimberly; Delios, Andrew
作者单位：Montclair State University; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; National University of Singapore
摘要：We develop an institutional change perspective to examine the tension that can exist between evolving external environmental influences and internal organizational influences on foreign entry attempts. Using data on the entries of 215 U.S. public firms made into I I Central and Eastern European transition economies during the period of 1990-2003, we find that shifts it? national institutional environments, from a socialist to a market economy, reduce the extent of challenges encountered to mak...
