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作者：Fey, Carl F.; Furu, Patrick
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Growing interest has emerged in viewing the multinational corporation as a knowledge creating and diffusing entity. The importance of sharing knowledge across organizational and national boundaries has been established in previous research. However, the question of which organizational policies lead to knowledge sharing between multinational units is still not fully understood. In particular, the link between compensation mechanisms and knowledge sharing has not received attention in previous ...
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作者：Farjoun, Moshe
作者单位：York University - Canada
摘要：This commentary responds to and builds upon a recent article about the role of analogical reasoning in strategy making (Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin, 2005). Based on conceptual and,formal analysis, the authors state that in complex and novel contexts, analogical reasoning may be superior to two established models: rational choice and local incremental search. I show that given an alternative conceptualization of the strategy-making context and main models, analogical reasoning is not necessa...
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作者：Newbert, Scott L.
作者单位：Villanova University
摘要：The resource-based view of the firm (RBV) hypothesizes that the exploitation of valuable, rare resources and capabilities contributes to a firm's competitive advantage, which in turn contributes to its performance. Despite this notion, few empirical studies test these hypotheses at the conceptual level. In response to this gap, this study empirically examines the relationships between value, rareness, competitive advantage, and performance. The results suggest that value and rareness are relat...
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作者：Lunnan, Randi; Haugland, Sven A.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：The strategic alliance literature demonstrates that alliances create value for the partners, but also that many alliances fall short of expectations. This study addresses the complex issue of alliance performance. We follow 100 contractual alliances over a 5-year period, and study their performance in terms of abrupt termination, short-term performance, and long-term performance. The results indicate that alliances that are considered strategically important are less likely to be abruptly term...
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作者：Kroll, Mark; Walters, Bruce A.; Wright, Peter
作者单位：University of Louisiana System; Louisiana Technical University; University of Memphis
摘要：Agency-based studies of boards of directors address factors relevant to board vigilance with respect to the monitoring of senior managers. We argue that relying solely on director vigilance may be limiting because vigilance without relevant experience is unlikely to ensure board effectiveness. Our contention is that boards comprising vigilant directors, as well as directors with appropriate knowledge gained through experience, not only will be better monitors, but also more useful advisors to ...
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作者：Li, Julie Juan; Poppo, Laura; Zhou, Kevin Zheng
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Kansas; University of Hong Kong
摘要：While most advocate that foreign firms should utilize managerial ties to conduct business in China, recent literature cautions that such ties may offer only conditional value. This study examines three sources of heterogeneity that may condition the value of ties: firm ownership (foreign vs. domestic), competition, and structural uncertainty. Results from a survey of 280 firms in China indicate that though foreign and domestic firms utilize ties at a similar level, their performance gains from...
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作者：Julian, Scott D.; Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph C.
作者单位：Saginaw Valley State University
摘要：There exist two prominent accounts of how managers make sense of and take action in relation to strategic issues. The threat-opportunity (TO) and feasibility-urgency (FU) approaches primarily emphasize automatic/affective and active/deliberative strategic issue diagnosis processes, respectively. Current research, however, does not effectively integrate or fully explore the relationship between these two frameworks. We employ theory-building literature to develop a framework that highlights fou...
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作者：Gibbert, Michael; Ruigrok, Winfried; Wicki, Barbara
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of St Gallen; SBS Swiss Business School
摘要：This article investigates the methodological sophistication of case studies as a tool for generating and testing theory analyzing case studies-published during the period 1995-2000 in 10 influential management journals. We find that case studies emphasized external validity at the expense of the two more fundamental quality measures, internal and construct validity. Comparing case studies published in the three highest-ranking journals with the other seven, we reveal strategies that may be use...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：Iowa State University
摘要：This study examines the underexplored tensions and complementarities between bridging ties and strong ties in innovation-seeking alliances. Bridging ties span structural holes to provide innovation potential but lack integration capacity, and strong ties provide integration capacity but lack innovation potential. We theoretically develop the idea that-notwithstanding their tensions-strong ties complement bridging ties in enhancing alliance ambidexterity, at the project level. While bridging ti...
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作者：Bergh, Donald D.; Lim, Elizabeth Ngah-Kiing
作者单位：University of Denver; University of Connecticut
摘要：This paper examines the role of teaming in corporate restructuring. Drawing from two viewpoints of organizational learning, absorptive capacity and organizational improvisation, we examine whether experience with corporate restructuring modes (sell-offs, spin-ofts) influences subsequent restructuring and financial performance. Consistent with an absorptive capacity view, cumulative and repetitive experience with sell-offs was related to the adoption of an ensuing sell-off and to higher perform...
