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作者：Carpenter, MA; Golden, BR
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：The notion that managers encounter differing levels of discretion across industries and organizations is becoming central to discussions of strategy formulation and implementation. However, discretion can be exercised or created only to the extent it is perceived, and theories of cognition and decision making suggest that managers' perceptions of discretion may vary significantly. Despite the importance of perceptions to Hambrick and Finkelstein's (1987) theoretical model of managerial discret...
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作者：Birkinshaw, J
摘要：This paper defines initiative as a key manifestation of corporate entrepreneurship, and examines the types of initiative exhibited in a sample of six subsidiaries of multinational corporations. From a detailed analysis of 39 separate initiatives, four distinct types are identified which we refer to as 'global,' 'local,' 'internal' and 'global-internal hybrid,' to correspond to the locus of the market opportunity whence each arose. Two important conclusions are indicated. First, entrepreneurshi...
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作者：Sundaramurthy, C; Mahoney, JM; Mahoney, JT
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper's regression analyses from a sample of 261 firms that adopted 486 antitakeover provisions (supermajority, classified boards, fair-price, reduction in cumulative voting, anti-greenmail and poison pills) in the 1984-88 period indicate that the negative market reactions to antitakeover provisions vary depending on firms' board structures. This paper's empirical evidence indicates that while separating the positions of CEO and chairperson of the board reduces the negative effect, increa...
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作者：Nobeoka, K; Cusumano, MA
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper explores the impact on sales growth of different product development strategies, especially an approach that focuses on the coordination of multiple projects that overlap in time and share critical components. The data for our analysis comes from the automobile industry, although the principles we discuss should apply to any industry where firms compete with multiple product lines and where the sharing of components among more than one distinct product is both possible and desirable...
