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作者：Hoetker, Glenn
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：The tacit assumption that increased product modularity is associated with advantageous increases in organizational modularity, underlies much of the literature on modularity. Previous empirical investigations of this assumption, few in number, have faced numerous confounding factors and generated conflicting results. I build a causal model for the relationship between product and organizational modularity, which I test using a distinctive empirical setting that controls for confounding factors...
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作者：Adner, R; Zemsky, P
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：We develop an approach to analyzing the sustainability of competitive advantage that emphasizes demand-side factors. We extend the added-value approach to business strategy by introducing an explicit treatment of how firms create value for consumers. This allows its to characterize how consumer heterogeneity and marginal utility from performance improvements on the demand side interact with resource heterogeneity and improving technologies on the supply: side. Using this approach, we address a...
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作者：de Figueiredo, JM; Kyle, MK
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Duke University
摘要：Innovative industries are often characterized by rapid product turnover. Product longevity may be driven by both a product's position within a market as well as its position within a firm's larger product portfolio. However, we have little understanding of the relative importance of these factors in determining product turnover and how they interact as an industry evolves. Although researchers have invested substantial effort in analyzing firm survival and turnover, there are far fewer studies...
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作者：Birkinshaw, Julian; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Holm, Ulf; Terjesen, Siri
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Royal Institute of Technology; Uppsala University; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Max Planck Society
摘要：This paper examines the decision by a multinational corporation (MNC) to relocate its business unit and/or corporate HQ overseas. We argue that business unit HQs move overseas in response to changes in the internal configuration of their unit's activities and the demands of the product markets in which they operate, whereas corporate HQs move overseas in response to the demands of external stakeholders, in particular global financial markets and shareholders. Using data on 125 business unit HQ...
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作者：Darnall, N; Edwards, D Jr
作者单位：George Mason University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：This research explores why some facilities accrue greater costs when adopting an environmental management system (EMS) and why costs vary among three different ownership structures. Using survey data of organizations that documented their EMS adoption costs over a 3-year period, the results show that publicly traded facilities had stronger complementary capabilities prior to EMS adoption and therefore lower adoption costs. By contrast, government facilities and privately owned enterprises had ...
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作者：Higgins, MC; Gulati, R
作者单位：Harvard University; Northwestern University
摘要：Young firms going public are dependent upon the decisions of investors for a successful public offering. Yet convincing investors to invest is not easy, as young firms have limited track records and, thus, face challenges associated with gaining legitimacy in their respective industries. This paper examines ways in which select information about firms undertaking an initial public offering (IPO) can affect investor decisions. Building upon recent research on upper echelons and signaling theory...
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作者：Dowell, Glen; Swaminathan, Anand
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：We explore the relationship between a firm's entry timing and its probability of surviving the early, uncertain period of its industry, and consider the trade-off between entering early and potentially establishing a strong position in the industry vs. waiting until technological uncertainty is reduced. We hypothesize that, owing to inertial forces, firms that enter the industry at the earliest point in its history are least likely to make the conversion to the product generation that becomes ...
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作者：Frynas, JJG; Mellahi, K; Pigman, GA
作者单位：Middlesex University; University of Nottingham
摘要：While the currently prevailing conceptual framework of first mover advantages (FMAs) specifies various market mechanisms through which first movers can gain pioneering benefits, it is incomplete by failing to consider the role of political resources in creating FMAs. In this context, this article aims to add the political mechanism to the current classification of FMA mechanisms. The article further serves as a window to an understanding of the long-term process of acquiring, sustaining, and e...
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作者：Tsang, Eric W. K.
作者单位：Wayne State University
摘要：From a critical realist perspective, I discuss the role played by behavioral assumptions in organization theories, and use transaction cost economics as an illustrative example. Core behavioral assumptions often constitute the foundation of the mechanismic explanations of a theory, and thus should play a pivotal role in theory development. I distinguish between assumption-based and assumption-omitted theory testing, and show that empirical research in transaction cost economics has been domina...
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作者：Westphal, JD; Boivie, S; Chng, DHM
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research on organization-environment relations has focused primarily on formal linkages between organizations such as board interlock ties as a strategy for managing resource dependence. This study examines whether top corporate executives may maintain more informal ties to executives of other firms in order to manage uncertainty arising from resource dependence. Our point of departure is prior research on boards of directors that has examined whether so-called 'broken board ties' (i.e., ties ...
