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作者:Julian, Scott D.; Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph C.; Justis, Robert T.
作者单位:Saginaw Valley State University; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要:With the increasing prominence of special interest group activity in the organizational external environment, we build on the stakeholder literature on strategic management to explain how organizations respond to pressures from such groups. Using a model integrating institutional, resource dependence, resource-based, and cognitive theoretical perspectives, we examine the restaurant industry's response to the fat reduction pressure campaign run by a nutritional interest group, the National Hear...
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作者:Mesquita, Luiz F.; Anand, Jaideep; Brush, Thomas H.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要:We compare resource-based and relational perspectives to examine competitive advantages within the context of vertical learning alliances. Previous research has shown that through such alliances suppliers acquire knowledge to forge new capabilities and attain performance improvements. We ask whether such improvements are exclusive to the learning partnership, or are available in other average parnerships of this supplier. We posit that the extent to which such performance improvements are part...
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作者:Farjoun, Moshe
作者单位:York University - Canada
摘要:This commentary responds to and builds upon a recent article about the role of analogical reasoning in strategy making (Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2005). Based on conceptual and,formal analysis, the authors state that in complex and novel contexts, analogical reasoning may be superior to two established models: rational choice and local incremental search. I show that given an alternative conceptualization of the strategy-making context and main models, analogical reasoning is not necessa...
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作者:Sinha, Rajiv K.; Noble, Charles H.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Mississippi
摘要:The emergence of dramatically innovative, or radical, new manufacturing technologies can force pivotal and life-threatening decisions for industry competitors. These technologies can represent a huge cost for adopting firms, but may also offer the chance to achieve competitive advantage through superior manufacturing. While prior research has considered a range of production process decisions (e.g., JIT mass customization) and outcomes for end-product technologies, little attention has been gi...
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作者:Gavetti, Giovanni; Levinthal, Daniel A.; Rivkin, Jan W.
作者单位:Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要:In his thoughtful commentary on our 2005 paper (Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2005), Farjoun offers three critiques and extensions. First, he suggests our approach should have explicitly considered a constructionist logic. Second, Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feed back-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights some of the contingencies u...