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作者：Julian, Scott D.; Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph C.
作者单位：Saginaw Valley State University
摘要：There exist two prominent accounts of how managers make sense of and take action in relation to strategic issues. The threat-opportunity (TO) and feasibility-urgency (FU) approaches primarily emphasize automatic/affective and active/deliberative strategic issue diagnosis processes, respectively. Current research, however, does not effectively integrate or fully explore the relationship between these two frameworks. We employ theory-building literature to develop a framework that highlights fou...
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作者：Rothaermel, Frank T.; Boeker, Warren
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Alliance formation is commonplace in many high-technology industries experiencing radical technological change, where established firms use alliances with new entrants to adapt to technological change, while new entrants benefit from the ability of established players to commercialize the new technology. Despite the prevalence of these alliances, we know little about how these firms choose to ally with specific firms given the range of possible partners they may choose from. This study explore...
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作者：Safizadeh, M. Hossein; Field, Joy M.; Ritzman, Larry P.
作者单位：Boston College
摘要：We investigate sourcing decisions related to the back-office operations of 108 processes used by financial services companies. Guided by the arguments of transaction cost economics and the resource-based and knowledge-based view of organizations, we hypothesize that service customization and volume represent two key drivers of a service company's sourcing decisions. The inherent uncertainty of service customization gives rise to the transaction cost risks of opportunism and holdups and thus fa...
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作者：Zott, Christoph; Amit, Raphael
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We examine the fit between a firm's product market strategy and its business model. We develop a formal model in order to analyze the contingent effects of product market strategy and business model choices on firm performance. We investigate a unique, manually collected dataset, and find that novelty-centered business models-coupled with product market strategies that emphasize differentiation, cost leadership, or early market entry-can enhance firm performance. Our data suggest that business...
