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作者：Ndofor, Hermann Achidi; Vanevenhoven, Jeff; Barker, Vincent L., III
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Wisconsin System; University of Kansas
摘要：Investigations into management actions that reverse organizational decline have produced inconsistent findings. Prior studies have focused on the value of retrenchment actions versus strategic actions to engineer a performance turnaround. These studies, however, have generally not controlled for the cause of firm decline, overlooking a major theoretical contingency. Examining prepackaged software firms in the 1990s, we test the association of strategic and retrenchment actions in facilitating ...
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作者：Bertrand, Olivier; Mol, Michael J.
作者单位：SKEMA Business School; Universite Cote d'Azur; Saint Petersburg State University; University of Warwick
摘要：This paper analyzes differences in the antecedents and performance consequences of domestic and offshore R&D outsourcing. Offshore outsourcing is characterized by larger cognitive distance. We find that absorptive capacity from internal R&D allows for more offshore outsourcing and that offshore outsourcing leads to more positive innovation outcomes, especially product innovation. Copyright (C) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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作者：Qian, Cuili; Cao, Qing; Takeuchi, Riki
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Connecticut; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：While conflicts (cognitive and affective) have been considered as important process variables to better understand the mixed findings on the relationship between top management team functional diversity and organizational innovation, such an input-process-outcome model is still incomplete without considering the environmental factors. This study was formulated to assess the importance of both competitive and institutional environments in moderating such upper echelon effects within a transitio...
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作者：Zahavi, Talli; Lavie, Dovev
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：We study how intra-industry product diversity affects firm performance by analyzing the implications of expanding a firm's product line within its core business. We conjecture that increases in product diversity initially undermine performance because of negative transfer effects but then improve it due to economies of scope. We further theorize that this U-shaped effect of product diversity becomes more pronounced as the firm increases the intensity of its technology investment, yet is likely...
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作者：Lee, Seung-Hyun; Weng, David H.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study examines the impact of bribery within the home country on firm exports by developing two contrasting hypotheses. On the one hand, preferential treatment resulting from government officials in exchange for bribes may promote exports by enhancing efficiency and enabling bribing firms to better compete in foreign markets. On the other hand, preferential treatment resulting from bribes may decrease exports by providing firms with more established positions within the domestic market dim...
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作者：Barreto, Ilidio; Patient, David L.
作者单位：Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
摘要：Why would managers in the same firm differ in their attention to opportunity versus threat aspects of the same exogenous shock? Drawing on the attention-based view, strategic issue diagnosis theory, and construal level theory, we propose and test a theoretical model of differentiated attention among managers within a firm driven by desirability (shock distance) and feasibility (capability perception) considerations. Managers more distant from the locus of the shock and managers with stronger e...
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作者：Costa, Luis Almeida; Cool, Karel; Dierickx, Ingemar
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; INSEAD Business School
摘要：The resource-based' view focuses on unique resources as the fundamental sources of competitive advantage and superior profits. We use a game-theoretic model to analyze the impact of the deployment of unique resources on product market competition, and the impact of unique resources and sustainable competitive advantages on profits when the competitive implications of resource deployment are taken into account. We find that some of the core propositions of the resource-based view do not necessa...
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作者：Baer, Markus; Dirks, Kurt T.; Nickerson, Jackson A.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Before a strategy can be developed, the problem it is supposed to address needs to be formulated. We establish the microfoundations of strategic problem formulation by developing a theory that predicts a core set of impediments to formulation that arise when complex, ill-structured problems are addressed by heterogeneous teams. These impediments fundamentally constrain and narrow problem formulation, thereby limiting solution search and potential value creation. We establish these impediments ...
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作者：Hadani, Michael; Schuler, Douglas A.
作者单位：Long Island University; Long Island University Post; Rice University
摘要：Although many believe that companies' political activities improve their bottom line, empirical studies have not consistently borne this out. We investigate the relationship between corporate political activity (CPA) and financial returns on a set of 943 S&P 1500 firms between 1998 to 2008. We find that firms' political investments are negatively associated with market performance and cumulative political investments worsen both market and accounting performance. Firms placing former public of...
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作者：Sosa, M. Lourdes
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：The creative destruction literature has argued that differences in R&D performance of incumbent vs. entrant firms can be explained through organizational change theories about established vs. de novo firms. A disconnect exists between these theories and the available empirical evidence because often the best performing firms are established firms as well. I propose to resolve this disconnect by distinguishing between market incumbency (presence in a market prior to a discontinuity) and organiz...
