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作者：Stevens, JM; Steensma, HK; Harrison, DA; Cochran, PL
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：With the recent spate of scandals resulting from the questionable behavior of corporate leaders, there have been calls for various governance mechanisms including ethics codes to guide executive decision-making. However, the extent to which ethics codes are actually used by executives when making strategic choices as opposed to being merely symbolic is unknown. We develop our hypotheses by combining stakeholder management theory and the theory of planned behavior, and test them with a survey o...
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作者：Tan, J; Tan, D
作者单位：Creighton University; Emory University
摘要：Economic reform in China has attracted growing attention from around the world owing to its significance for theory and practice. What has been largely missing in the literature is the temporal dimension, i.e., the changes over time in key variables such as organizational enviromnent, fit-in strategic adaptations, and the performance implications. In this study, we investigate environment and strategic adaptations 12 years after Tan and Litschert examined these issues in 1990. Following a stag...
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作者：Tanriverdi, H; Venkatraman, N
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Boston University
摘要：This study examines corporate performance effects of cross-business knowledge synergies in multibusiness firms. It synthesizes the resource-based view of diversification and the economic theory of complementarities to conceptualize cross-business knowledge synergies in terms of the relatedness and the complementarity of knowledge resources across business units of the multibusiness firm. The study hypothesizes that corporate performance is improved when the firm simultaneously exploits a compl...
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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...
