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作者：Lee, Gwendolyn K.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper focuses on the role of network resources and examines the associated mechanisms that affect the timing of entry into an emerging product market. Linking network theory to market entry research, I analyze the pattern in the structure, relation, and composition of 517 firms' strategic alliances as the firms face the decision of whether and when to enter the networking switches market over a 13-year period from 1989 to 2001. The context for empirical testing is the voice/data convergen...
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作者：Terlaak, Ann; King, Andrew A.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Dartmouth College
摘要：We extend understanding of information-revealing bandwagons by considering a common condition under which adoption of a practice by small organizations, rather than large ones, has a disproportionate influence on future adoption propensities. We hypothesize that when the value of adoption increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate...
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作者：Wang, Lihua; Zajac, Edward J.
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University; Northwestern University
摘要：For firms seeking to strategically combine their resources with those of other firms, two popular alternative governance structures emerge: alliance or acquisition. In this paper, we propose a dyadic perspective to examine how and why configurations of two firms' resources and capabilities affect the costs and benefits associated with each governance structure. More specifically, we posit that factors such as (1) the resource similarity and complementarity between a pair of firms, (2) the comb...
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作者：Shervani, Tasadduq A.; Frazier, Gary; Challagalla, Goutam
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; University of Southern California; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Transaction cost economics (TCE) has guided a variety of research on governance in the strategic management literature. An important question arises, however, as to whether the TCE framework is equally appropriate for all types of firms in all business settings. In this paper, we argue that TCE is not and suggest that firms with high market power may be able to lower transaction costs under high asset specificity and uncertainty in nonintegrated distribution channels, avoiding the need to util...
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作者：de Rond, Mark; Thietart, Raymond-Alain
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; ESSEC Business School
摘要：We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chalice, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing oil this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between each of them and their comparative significance. The paper thus aims at achieving three objectives: (a) to articulate a philosophically sustainable theory of strategic choice that corroborates experi...
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作者：Nag, Rajiv; Hambrick, Donald C.; Chen, Ming-Jer
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Virginia
摘要：It is commonly asserted that the field of strategic management is fragmented and lacks a coherent identity. This skepticism, however, is paradoxically at odds with the great success that strategic management has enjoyed. How might one explain this paradox? We seek answers to this question by relying first on a large-scale survey of strategic management scholars from which we derive an implicit consensual definition of the field-as tacitly held by its members. We then supplement this implicit d...
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作者：Barkema, Harry G.; Shvyrkov, Oleg
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：Prior research suggests that top management team (THT) diversity increases strategic innovation. We extended this argument to the case of entering new geographic areas. In addition to exploring the cognitive implications of TMT diversity, as done in prior research, we explored when diversity may lead to the formation of subgroups within TMTs hampering communication and the propensity to enter new geographic areas. We also examined how these positive cognitive and negative social implications c...
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作者：Goerzen, Anthony
作者单位：University of Victoria
摘要：A phenomenon that has become the focus of recent research on interorganizational alliance network growth is that firms often enter into repeated relationships with prior partners. The implications of this tendency on corporate performance, however, are not well understood. From transaction cost and network perspectives, I test competing hypotheses on a large sample of multinational corporations. My results indicate clearly that firms not only often do enter into repeated equity-based partnersh...
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作者：Andersen, Torben J.; Denrell, Jerker; Bettis, Richard A.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Stanford University; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：One of the most enduring puzzles in the strategy literature is the negative association between risk and return known as the Bowman paradox. This paper formalizes a model of strategic conduct based on the concept of strategic fit and the heterogeneity of firm strategic capabilities. This model is shown mathematically to yield the negative association of the Bowman paradox. Furthermore, the model makes several other testable predictions. To examine these predictions, simulated data from the mod...
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作者：David, Parthiban; Bloom, Matt; Hillman, Amy J.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We study relationships between shareholder proposal activism, managerial response, and corporate social performance (CSP). We find that shareholder proposal activism reduces CSP. We infer that rather than pressuring firms to improve CSP, activism may engender diversion of resources away from CSP into political activities used by managers to resist external pressures and retain discretion. We also find that managers are more likely to settle proposals filed by 'salient' shareholders (i.e., thos...
