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作者:Powell, TC; Lloyd, CJ
作者单位:University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要:In a recent paper, Powell (2003) studied 20-year performance in 21 industries, using an ordinal performance measure ('wins'), and the Gini coefficient as a measure of competitive dominance. The findings suggest that firm performance is statistically indistinguishable from performance in non-business domains such as politics, games, sports, and pageants. This paper extends these findings, developing the statistical foundations for a general theory of competitive dominance. The paper presents a ...
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作者:Boyd, BK; Finkelstein, S; Gove, S
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Dartmouth College; University System of Ohio; University of Dayton
摘要:As the field of strategy reaches its 25th anniversary, we examine how far the field has progressed during that time. Both management and strategy research have been characterized as being in an early, stage of development. We draw on Kuhn's (1996) paradigm development model, which posits it connection between afield's stage of maturity and research processes and outcomes, to assess the maturity of the strategy field. The conduct two studies. The first is a cross-discipline comparison of produc...
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作者:Penner-Hahn, J; Shaver, JM
作者单位:Wayne State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Internationalizing research and development is often advocated as a strategy for fostering the development of technological capabilities. Although firms conduct international R&D to tap into knowledge bases that reside in foreign countries, we argue that in order to benefit from international R&D investments firms must already possess research capabilities in underlying or complementary technologies. We examine the international R&D expansion activities, research capabilities, and patent outpu...
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作者:Sharma, S; Henriques, I
作者单位:Wilfrid Laurier University; York University - Canada
摘要:We examined how managers' perceptions of different types of stakeholdcr influences in the Canadian forestry industry affect the types of sustainability practices that their firms adopt. Both influences involving withholding of resources by social and ecological stakeholders and those involving directed usage of resources from economic stakeholders were found to drive such practices. We found that the industry and its stakeholders have moved beyond a focus on early stages of sustainability perf...