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作者：Arora, Ashish; Nandkumar, Anand
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Duke University
摘要：We study how the impact of capabilities for performance is contingent upon the environment. Using a novel dataset of information security start-ups, we study how markets for technology change the relative impact of technology and marketing capabilities on performance. Since internal technical effort enables firms to generate technology inputs instead of acquiring them from the market (substitute), a greater supply of technology diminishes the importance of technical ability as a source of comp...
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作者：Brush, Thomas H.; Dangol, Ramesh; O'Brien, Jonathan P.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University System of Ohio; Youngstown State University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：Customers develop switching costs when they invest time and effort to develop capabilities required to optimally use a given product. Such capabilities are likely to be firm specific and cannot be transferred perfectly to competitors' product offerings. Customers who face switching costs are likely to remain with the same firm and consume complementary products that meet their needs. Thus, firms can achieve competitive advantage by exploiting customers' switching costs. In this paper, we hypot...
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作者：Guler, Isin; Nerkar, Atul
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Sabanci University
摘要：In this paper, we examine how the configuration of intraorganizational networks, and in particular, cohesion among members of an organization, influences organizations' innovative output. We argue that the cohesion among R&D scientists could be at a local level or a global level, and that local and global cohesion may have different impacts on firms' innovation performance. We test our hypotheses by examining the structure of the R&D collaboration networks within firms that operated in the pha...
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作者：Kaul, Aseem
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper studies the role of technological innovation as an antecedent of changes in corporate scope. It argues that technological innovations prompt the firm to reconfigure its corporate portfolioto redeploy resources to areas of new opportunity while it divests out of marginal businesses. Results from a cross-industry sample of U.S. manufacturing firms show successful innovation by a firm is followed by both expansion into new areas through complementary resource seeking acquisitions and d...
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作者：Moore, Curt B.; Bell, R. Greg; Filatotchev, Igor; Rasheed, Abdul A.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：While product market choices have been central to strategy formulation for firms in the past, the integration of financial markets makes the choice of capital markets an equally important strategic decision. We advance a comparative institutional perspective to explain capital market choice by firms making an IPO in a foreign market. We find that internal governance characteristics (founder-CEO, executive incentives, and board independence) and external network characteristics (prestigious und...
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作者：Gulati, Ranjay; Puranam, Phanish; Tushman, Michael
作者单位：Harvard University; University of London; London Business School
摘要：This article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices they entail. The article identifies key parameters on which such meta-organizations' designs differ from each other. It also presents a taxonomy that elucidates how such forms of collective action vary and the constraints they must address to be successful...
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作者：Zhou, Kevin Zheng; Li, Caroline Bingxin
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Denver
摘要：This paper examines how existing knowledge base (i.e., knowledge breadth and depth) interacts with knowledge integration mechanisms (i.e., external market knowledge acquisition and internal knowledge sharing) to affect radical innovation. Survey data from high technology companies in China demonstrate that the effects of knowledge breadth and depth are contingent on market knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing in opposite ways. In particular, a firm with a broad knowledge base is more li...
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作者：Alessandri, Todd M.; Tong, Tony W.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.
作者单位：Northeastern University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Growth option value varies widely across firms. This research explores managerial incentives as a source of firm heterogeneity in growth option value. We argue that when the payoff structure of managerial incentives corresponds to that of growth options, managers will be motivated to pursue actions that increase firms' growth option value, particularly when greater growth opportunities are available in an industry. Results indicate that stock option holdings and managerial stock ownership have...
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作者：Jeong, Yujin; Weiner, Robert J.
作者单位：American University; George Washington University
摘要：How do managers react in an environment where bribery is likely to bring high rewards, but also presents high risks? We examine the supply side (firms' illicit payments) of bribery in a global setting, using the United Nations' (UN) Oil-for-Food Program, part of UN sanctions on Iraq. Some companies helped Iraq circumvent UN sanctions through bribe payments in the form of illicit surcharges. Our transaction-level analysis of factors affecting bribe payments draws on the economic theory of crime...
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作者：Zatzick, Christopher D.; Moliterno, Thomas P.; Fang, Tony
作者单位：California State University System; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Manitoba
摘要：This paper explores how fit with the organization's strategic orientation relates to performance following total quality management (TQM) implementation. Conceptualizing the organization as a system of interrelated activities, we propose that TQM is an elaborating element that achieves internal fit when the core elements of the activity system are orientated toward a cost leadership rather than differentiation strategic position. When internal fit occurs, TQM drives tighter interactions among ...
