作者：BURGERS, WP; HILL, CWL; KIM, WC
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; INSEAD Business School
摘要：The theory articulated in this paper suggests that the desire to reduce demand and competitive uncertainty are two separate, important motives for alliance formation. Taking this as a starting point, we predict the configuration of horizontal alliances that we might expect to observe within an industry when firms experience these uncertainties to different degrees. An empirical test of this, theory using data from the global auto industry yields results consistent with the view (1) that allian...
作者：HAMBRICK, DC; GELETKANYCZ, MA; FREDRICKSON, JW
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Some top executives are more committed to the status quo-particularly to their organization's current strategy and leadership profile-than are others. Most empirical research on upper echelons treats psychological phenomena as a 'black box'-the unobserved intervening mechanisms-that causes associations between more observable executive characteristics and organizational outcomes. In contrast, this paper attempts to directly examine the determinants of an important element of an executive's psy...
