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作者：Csaszar, Felipe A.; Levinthal, Daniel A.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research summary: Managers' mental representations affect the perceived payoffs and alternatives that managers consider. Thus, mental representations affect how managers search for profitable strategies as well as the quality of strategies they discover. To study how mental representation and search interact, we formally model the dual search over possible representations and over policy choices of a strategy landscape. We analyze when it is preferable to emphasize searching for the best polic...
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作者：Bakker, Rene M.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Research summary: I add to work that emphasizes the stability of strategic alliances by considering the consequences of alliance partner reconfiguration. I offer two contrasting perspectives: (1) alliance partner reconfiguration leads to disruption, hence increases the risk of subsequent project termination; (2) partner reconfiguration leads to adaptation, hence decreases this risk. Data on 1,025 interfirm Australian mining alliances (2002-2011) shows that on average alliance partner reconfigu...
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作者：Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Research summary: The study explores renewal in a novel but understudied contextan era of ferment with competing technological options. It focuses on IBM's transition from market leadership in a failed path (plasma) to leadership in the emerging dominant technology (LCD) in the 1980s. Interviews and internal documents offer two primary factors explaining renewal at IBM. First, IBM Research had a hybrid structure that captured the benefits of both centralized and decentralized R&D. Second, midd...
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作者：Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hugill, Andrea R.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Francisco; Harvard University; Harvard University
摘要：Research summary: Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information about suppliers' conduct. But little is known about what influences auditors' ability to identify and report problems. Our analysis of nearly 17,000 supplier audits reveals that auditors report fewer violations when individual auditors have audited the factor...
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作者：Anand, Jaideep; Mulotte, Louis; Ren, Charlotte R.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Tilburg University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Research summary: Research traditionally uses experiential learning arguments to explain the existence of a positive relationship between repetition of an activity and performance. We propose an additional interpretation of this relationship in the context of discrete corporate development activities. We argue that firms choose to repeat successful activities, thereby accumulating high experience with them. Data on 437 aircraft projects introduced through three governance modes show that the p...
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作者：Karna, Amit; Richter, Ansgar; Riesenkampff, Eberhard
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; University of Liverpool; European Business School (EBS) University
摘要：Within the capabilities-based view of the firm, there is debate about the relative importance of ordinary and dynamic capabilities for firm performance and about the extent to which their performance effects are contingent on environmental conditions. We meta-analyze 115 studies to investigate the relationship between both ordinary and dynamic capabilities and the financial performance of firms in relatively stable versus changing environments. The results suggest that the performance effects ...
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作者：McCann, Brian T.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Lahiri, Nandini
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Research summary: This research extends agglomeration theory by joining it with information economics research to better understand the determinants of firms' organizational governance choices. We argue that co-location in a common geographic cluster fosters lower levels of information asymmetry between exchange partners and thus leads firms to employ acquisitions rather than alliances for their external corporate development activities. We further extend agglomeration theory by arguing that t...
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作者：Wowak, Adam J.; Mannor, Michael J.; Arrfelt, Mathias; Mcnamara, Gerry
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Numerous studies have focused on CEO charisma as an antecedent to firm performance, but this literature has largely overlooked the possibility that charisma manifests in more proximal strategic initiatives that (unlike performance) are largely under the CEO's control. In this study, we integrate perspectives from the upper echelons and charismatic leadership literatures to argue that CEO charisma influences year-over-year strategic change, the degree to which strategies deviate from industry c...
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作者：Garcia-Castro, Roberto; Francoeur, Claude
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：Instrumental stakeholder theory has largely emphasized the positive effects of investing in stakeholder cooperative relationships in an additive, linear fashion in the sense that the more investments the better. Yet investing in stakeholders can be very costly and the effects of these investments in firm performance are subject to complex internal complementarities and external contingencies. In this article we rely on set-theoretic methods and a large international dataset of 1,060 multinatio...
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作者：Arora, Ashish; Gittelman, Michelle; Kaplan, Sarah; Lynch, John; Mitchell, Will; Siggelkow, Nicolaj
作者单位：Duke University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Toronto; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This special issue is devoted to exploring new methods for addressing questions in strategic management. This introduction synthesizes the collective contribution of the articles for strategy research. The articles draw on methods from other fields, extending and adapting them to address strategy questions. The innovations provide new, different, or more nuanced measures and findings as compared to prior research. We conclude by discussing more general implications for scholarship in strategic...
