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作者：Sorenson, Olav; McEvily, Susan; Ren, Charlotte Rongrong; Roy, Raja
作者单位：University of Toronto; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Tulane University
摘要：Although strategy research typically regards firm scope as a positional characteristic associated with performance differences, we propose that broad contemporary scope also provides insight into the routines that govern firm behavior. To attain broad scope, firms must repeatedly explore outside the boundaries of their current niche. Firms with broad niches therefore operate under a set of routines that repeatedly propel them into new market segments, expanding their niche. These niche expansi...
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作者：Szulanski, Gabriel; Jensen, Robert J.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Adaptation almost invariably accompanies the cross-border transfer of firm-specific practices. The existing literature contains two conflicting approaches to adaptation. The first, more traditional approach, following institutional, motivational, and pragmatic efficiency considerations, presumes that a modified practice can be fine tuned, stabilized, and institutionalized without consulting a working example and that practices should thus be adapted as quickly as possible to create fit with th...
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作者：Dowell, Glen
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：A firm's product line breadth in a given market has both benefits and costs; these effects can be more clearly seen by examining not only the number of products a firm offers, but also the degree of complexity that the product line represents. The effects of breadth are particularly important for new entrants in a relatively mature industry and I examine the breadth-survival relation on new entrants in the bicycle industry in the period 1993-98. I find that firms offering a greater number of p...
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作者：Wiltbank, Robert; Dew, Nicholas; Read, Stuart; Sarasvathy, Saras D.
作者单位：Willamette University; United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; International Institute for Management Development (IMD); University of Virginia
摘要：Two prescriptions dominate the topic of what firms should do next in uncertain situations: planning approaches and adaptive approaches. These differ primarily on the appropriate role of prediction in the decision process. Prediction is a central issue in strategy making owing to the presumption that what can be predicted can be controlled. In this paper we argue for the independence of prediction and control. This implies that the pursuit of successful outcomes can occur through control-orient...
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作者：Uhlenbruck, Klaus; Hitt, Michael A.; Semadeni, Matthew
作者单位：University of Montana System; University of Montana; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：While most prior research suggests that the average change in market value of acquiring firms varies closely around zero, recent research grounded in the resource-based view and organizational learning theory identify positive returns to acquirers. We contribute to this literature by focusing on acquisitions of Internet firms and the potential for the transfer of scarce resources. We hypothesize that acquisitions made by offline firms of Internet firms and by Internet firms of other Internet f...
