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作者：Klepper, S; Simons, KL
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of London; Royal Holloway University London
摘要：The U.S. television receiver industry evolved to be an oligopoly dominated by firms that produced radios prior to TVs. Data an the experience of all U.S. radio manufacturers and on the length of survival and rate of innovation of all U.S. TV entrants are collected to analyze how radio experience influenced entry, firm performance, and the evolution of market structure in the TV industry. Consistent with a model of the evolution of an oligopolistic industry, more experienced radio firms were mo...
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作者：Gulati, R; Nohria, N; Zaheer, A
作者单位：Northwestern University; Harvard University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper introduces the important role of networks of interfirm ties in examining fundamental issues in strategy research. Prior research has primarily viewed films as autonomous entities striving for competitive advantage from either external industry sources or from internal resources and capabilities. However, the networks of relationships in which firms are embedded profoundly influence their conduct and performance. We identify Jive key areas of strategy research in which there is poten...
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作者：Forte, M; Hoffman, JJ; Lamont, BT; Brockmann, EN
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Stetson University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
摘要：This study extends previous research on organizational adaptation to major environmental shifts by empirically examining the potential constraining effects of organizational form, operationalized using the Miles and Snow typology, on the type of responses enacted as well as the performance effects of the responses. Results indicate that a fit between environmental contingencies and organizational form relates to superior performance. The results also provide support for the idea that organizat...
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作者：Davis, JH; Schoorman, FD; Mayer, RC; Tan, HH
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Baylor University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Employee trust for the general manager is proposed as an internal organizational characteristic that provides a competitive advantage for the firm. This paper empirically examines the relationship between trust for a business unit's general manager and organizational performance. Trust was found to be significantly related to sales, profits and employee turnover in the restaurant industry. Managers who were either more or less trusted differed significantly in perceptions of their ability, ben...
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作者：Afuah, A
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms' competitive advantage when the technological change instead renders obsolete the capabilities of their co-opetitors-the suppliers, customers, and complementers whose very success may underpin that of the firm and with whom it must collaborate and compete. This paper explores the eff...
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作者：Langlois, RN; Steinmueller, WE
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Sussex
摘要：In the mid-1980s, Japanese firms strongly challenged American dominance of the semiconductor industry. A large literature arose to suggest that, in order to survive, American firms needed to adopt the capabilities and strategies of the Japanese. Recently, American firms have indeed surged back to regain a strong position in the industry. This essay attempts to collect some of the lessons for strategy research of that American resurgence. We argue that, although some of the American response di...
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作者：Makadok, R; Walker, G
作者单位：Emory University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：Testing the causal link between a firm-specific competence and its antecedents or consequences has become a key objective for strategy research over the past decade. On one hand, case studies can identity a competence, but with their small sample size, their retrospective research design, and their tendency toward sampling on the dependent variable, they can not reliably rest the causal connection between a competence and its antecedents or its consequences. On the other hand, variance decompo...
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作者：Brouthers, KD; Brouthers, LE
作者单位：University of East London; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：In this paper, we develop and test a model of diversification mode choice (how firms decide between acquisitions and greenfield start-up ventures) which includes institutional, cultural, and transaction cost variables. Using a sample of Japanese firms entering western Europe, our results show the model correctly predicts over eighty-seven percent of the mode choices. Thus, we provide strong initial evidence to support using institutional, cultural and transaction cost variables to predict firm...
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作者：Gupta, AK; Govindarajan, V
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Dartmouth College
摘要：Pursuing a nodal (i.e., subsidiary) level of analysis, this paper advances and tests art overarching theoretical framework pertaining to intracorporate knowledge transfers within multinational corporations (MNCs). We predicted that (i) knowledge outflows from a subsidiary would be positively associated with value of the subsidiary's knowledge stock, its motivational disposition to share knowledge, and the richness of transmission channels; and (ii) knowledge inflows into a subsidiary would be ...
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作者：Konrad, AM; Mangel, R
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This research examined the adoption of work-life programs and the impact of work-life programs on firm productivity. Human resource executives in a national sample of 658 organizations provided survey data on firm characteristics and work-life programs. In these 658 organizations, the percentage of professionals and the percentage of women employed were positively related to the development of more extensive work-life programs. Productivity data were obtained from CD Disclosure for 195 public,...
