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作者：McDonald, Michael L.; Westphal, James D.; Graebner, Melissa E.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This article contributes to the literature on board effectiveness by being perhaps the first to systematically examine how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a focal firm's strategic initiatives. Our theoretical model is grounded in the psychological literature on expertise and its role in group decision making effectiveness. We focus on outside director expertise in acquisition decision making, and its implications for...
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作者：Chan, Christine M.; Isobe, Takehiko; Makino, Shige
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Keio University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article investigates the effect of the level of institutional development of host countries on the level of and variation in foreign affiliate performance. Institutional development is defined as the extent to which the economic, political, and social institutions a) a host country are developed awl are favorable for foreign affiliates. A longitudinal analysis of over 30,000 foreign affiliate-year cases that include 6,985 foreign affiliates in 38 host countries between 1996 and 2001 shows...
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作者：Crook, T. Russell; Ketchen, David J., Jr.; Combs, James G.; Todd, Samuel Y.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Auburn University System; Auburn University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Southern University
摘要：Resource-based theory (RBT) has emerged as a key perspective guiding inquiry into the determinants of organisational performance. Since the early 1990s, numerous studies have examined RBT's assertion that the extent to which organizations possess strategic resources is positively related to performance. Although many studies appear to support this assertion, there is no consensus regarding how strongly strategic resources relate to performance. To help resolve this issue, we meta-analyse 125 s...
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作者：Murillo-Luna, Josefina L.; Garces-Ayerbe, Concepcion; Rivera-Torres, Pilar
作者单位：University of Zaragoza; University of Zaragoza
摘要：The objective of this article is to analyze the strategies or patterns of adaptation of firms for responding to environmental requirements or expectations. We specifically analyze the influence of the different pressure agents or stakeholders oil the degree of proactivity of these patterns. We therefore propose and validate for types of environmental response pattern, representing particular configurations of both the scope of environmental objectives mid their allocation of internal resources...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：Iowa State University
摘要：Knowledge-intensive outsourcing alliances present outsourcers with a tension between simultaneously sharing enough private knowledge to accomplish alliance goals and safeguarding such knowledge against misappropriation. This study explores the perspective that increasing interfirm modularity lowers the need for interfirm knowledge sharing. Put another way modularity complements outsourcee ignorance. Analyses of data on 209 alliances between U.S. firms and software services firms in Russia, Ire...
