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作者：Rahmandad, Hazhir; Repenning, Nelson
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：The notion of capability is widely invoked to explain differences in organizational performance, and research shows that strategically relevant capabilities can be both built and lost. However, while capability development is widely studied, capability erosion has not been integrated into our understanding of performance heterogeneity. To understand erosion, we study two software development organizations that experienced diverging capability trajectories despite similar organizational and tec...
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作者：Xia, Jun; Dawley, David D.; Jiang, Han; Ma, Rong; Boal, Kimberly B.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; West Virginia University; University of Arizona; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Camden; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：Research summary: Predicting the emergence of bankrupt firms relying on firm signals involves a stigma-related dilemma. On the one hand, bankrupt firms tend to send positive signals through restructuring to decouple themselves from the stigma of bankruptcy. On the other hand, the preexistence of the bankruptcy stigma may reduce the signaling effectiveness of firms' restructuring efforts, making the outcome prediction difficult. We address this dilemma by developing a dynamic integrative view t...
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作者：Flickinger, Miriam; Wrage, Markus; Tuschke, Anja; Bresser, Rudi
作者单位：University of Munich; Free University of Berlin
摘要：In this study, we address the question of why some CEOs stay in office during a performance downturn while others don't. Taking a social status perspective, we argue that an individual's board network embeddednessas reflected in the number of outside directorshipsplays an important role in dismissal decisions. We predict that a high status of the CEO relative to the chairman of the board protects an underperforming CEO against dismissal, while the relative salience of board network outsiders c...
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作者：Thietart, Raymond-Alain
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：Analysis of a 42-year strategic journey at a large multinational firm exposes the dynamics behind its strategic evolution. Grounded on a complexity science paradigm, this article challenges our understanding of the role of agency in strategic timing while adding conceptual and methodological innovations. Based on micro and macro approaches, qualitative interpretations, and econometric studies, the results tend to show that while agency partly produces strategy dynamics and timing of actions, s...
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作者：Sauerwald, Steve; Lin, Zhiang (John); Peng, Mike W.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Excess CEO returns refer to CEO financial returns in excess of shareholder returns. How do boards rein in excess CEO returns? Introducing a social capital view of board monitoring, we suggest that boards face two competing normative pressurescorporate elite norms and monitoring norms. How boards conform to such normative pressures for controlling excess CEO returns is affected by their external and internal social capital. Further, we substantiate our arguments by showing that powerful CEOs an...
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作者：Dahlander, Linus; O'Mahony, Siobhan; Gann, David M.
作者单位：European School of Management & Technology; Boston University; Imperial College London
摘要：The variance hypothesis predicts that external search breadth leads to innovation outcomes, but people have limited attention for search and cultivating breadth consumes attention. How does individuals' search breadth affect innovation outcomes? How does individuals' allocation of attention affect the efficacy of search breadth? We matched survey data with complete patent records, to examine the search behaviors of elite boundary spanners at IBM. Surprisingly, individuals who allocated attenti...
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作者：Carroll, Robert J.; Primo, David M.; Richter, Brian K.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Rochester; University of Rochester; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Research summary: This article uses item response theory (IRT) to advance strategic management research, focusing on an application to corporate social responsibility (CSR). IRT explicitly models firms' and individuals' observable actions in order to measure unobserved, latent characteristics. IRT models have helped researchers improve measures in numerous disciplines. To demonstrate their potential in strategic management, we show how the method improves on a key measure of corporate social r...
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作者：Agarwal, Rajshree; Gambardella, Alfonso; Olson, Daniel M.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Bocconi University
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作者：Connelly, Brian L.; Ketchen, David J., Jr.; Gangloff, K. Ashley; Shook, Christopher L.
作者单位：Auburn University System; Auburn University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：Research summary: Drawing on theory about signaling, sensemaking, and the romance of leadership, we extend inquiry on investors' perceptions of CEO succession following misconduct. Whereas past studies have treated misconduct monolithically, we examine failures of integrity and competence separately. Using a policy capturing methodology that isolates investors' decision making from potential confounds, we find that, following an integrity failure, investors perceive outside and interim success...
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作者：Zhu, Hongjin; Yoshikawa, Toru
作者单位：McMaster University; Singapore Management University
摘要：Research summary: Although previous studies have explored the value of government directors, less attention has been directed at the antecedents of government directors' engagement in value-adding activities, such as managerial monitoring and resource provision. Drawing on social identity theory, we offer a novel model that specifies how a government director's dual identifications with the focal firm, and with the government individually and interactively affect his or her governance behavior...
