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作者：Stone, MM; Brush, CG
摘要：This paper argues that ambiguity of context manifested in pressures for legitimacy and commitment affect planning processes. Ambiguity arises from multiple conflicting constituencies and the lack of direct control over resources. Using nonprofit and entrepreneurial organizations as examples of organizations facing ambiguous contents, we examine their planning practices to develop an understanding of the relationship between commitment legitimacy, and planning. From this analysis, we articulate...
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作者：Sundaramurthy, C
摘要：This paper advances understanding of corporate governance relationships with a longitudinal study of multiple antitakeover options. Prior analyses have been primarily cross-sectional, focused exclusively on a single provision ignoring provisions which require subsequent stockholder approval. The current study uses agency theory, and broadens this perspective by examining the differential impact of institutional investors' stockholding, managerial stock ownership, and corporate board characteri...
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作者：Szulanski, G
摘要：The ability to transfer best practices internally is critical to a firm's ability to build competitive advantage through the appropriation of rents from scarce internal knowledge. Just as a firm's distinctive competencies might be difficult for other firms to imitate, its best practices could be difficult to imitate internally. Yet, little systematic attention has been paid to such internal stickiness. The author analyzes internal stickiness of knowledge transfer and tests the resulting model ...
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作者：Kochhar, R; David, P
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：There is much debate about the effect of institutional investors on firm innovation. This paper tests three competing hypotheses by including differences among institutions in their ability to influence firms. Results using an outcome-based measure of innovation indicate that institutions do not foster short-term orientation; instead they may influence firms to increase innovation.
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作者：Miller, D; Chen, MJ
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This research explores the notion of competitive simplicity: a tendency of some firms to concentrate intensely on just a few central activities. Our focus here is the simplicity inherent in the repertoire of concrete, market-oriented actions used by companies to compete: these actions include product introductions, pricing or advertising decisions, and changes in market scope. The simplicity of a competitive repertoire can be assessed by its range of actions and its degree of concentration on ...
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作者：Lassar, WM; Kerr, JL
作者单位：University of Miami
摘要：This paper examines the influence of competitive strategy on the relationship between suppliers and their distribution networks. Drawing on agency theory, hypotheses are developed specifying the appropriate match between manufacturer strategies and systems of control within distribution channels. Cluster analysis is used to show distinct differences in channel management and structure for the three generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus. Results suggest that variation...
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作者：Grant, RM
摘要：Given assumptions about the characteristics of knowledge and the knowledge requirements of production, the firm is conceptualized as an institution for integrating knowledge. The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members. In contrast to earlier literature, knowledge is viewed as residing within the individual, and the primary role of the organization is knowledge application rather than ...
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作者：Dooley, RS; Fowler, DM; Miller, A
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Past research on the relationship between strategic variety and industry profitability has argued for either high homogeneity or high heterogeneity. In this paper, we review the literature on strategic variety and use it to develop hypotheses suggesting that the relationship between strategic variety and average industry profits is curvilinear. Based on our analysis of 61 industries, we find empirical support for our hypotheses, suggesting that very high levels of heterogeneity or homogeneity ...
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作者：Kochhar, R
摘要：The study of capital structure has increasingly gained importance in strategic management research. Paradigms derived from organizational economics have also gained popularity in explaining firm actions. Agency theory and transaction cost economics represent two such paradigms that rely on the notion of market imperfections. Notwithstanding the similarities between them, these two offer different explanations of the role of debt and equity in a firm. The governance abilities of the financing s...
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作者：Miller, D
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：My 1986 article in SMJ represented an early attempt to apply the approach of configuration to the field of strategy. Now, 10 years later, we still have far to go. What is often lacking from the configurational literature is the search for configuration itself: for complex systems of interdependency and their core orchestrating themes. In this note I address the two major approaches to configuration: conceptually derived typologies and empirically based taxonomies. Some shortcomings of this wor...
