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作者：Huckman, Robert S.; Zinner, Darren E.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：For over three decades, the benefits of focus have been touted under the guiding principle that dedicated attention to a small set of linked tasks improves operating performance. Numerous studies have suggested that the performance of a division, plant, or business unit is improved to the extent that it remains focused on a narrow range of activities. Others have found similar benefits associated with focus at the level of the entire firm. A question that has received less attention, however, ...
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作者：Rothaermel, Frank T.; Boeker, Warren
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Alliance formation is commonplace in many high-technology industries experiencing radical technological change, where established firms use alliances with new entrants to adapt to technological change, while new entrants benefit from the ability of established players to commercialize the new technology. Despite the prevalence of these alliances, we know little about how these firms choose to ally with specific firms given the range of possible partners they may choose from. This study explore...
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作者：Safizadeh, M. Hossein; Field, Joy M.; Ritzman, Larry P.
作者单位：Boston College
摘要：We investigate sourcing decisions related to the back-office operations of 108 processes used by financial services companies. Guided by the arguments of transaction cost economics and the resource-based and knowledge-based view of organizations, we hypothesize that service customization and volume represent two key drivers of a service company's sourcing decisions. The inherent uncertainty of service customization gives rise to the transaction cost risks of opportunism and holdups and thus fa...
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作者：Crook, T. Russell; Ketchen, David J., Jr.; Combs, James G.; Todd, Samuel Y.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Auburn University System; Auburn University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Southern University
摘要：Resource-based theory (RBT) has emerged as a key perspective guiding inquiry into the determinants of organisational performance. Since the early 1990s, numerous studies have examined RBT's assertion that the extent to which organizations possess strategic resources is positively related to performance. Although many studies appear to support this assertion, there is no consensus regarding how strongly strategic resources relate to performance. To help resolve this issue, we meta-analyse 125 s...
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作者：Murillo-Luna, Josefina L.; Garces-Ayerbe, Concepcion; Rivera-Torres, Pilar
作者单位：University of Zaragoza; University of Zaragoza
摘要：The objective of this article is to analyze the strategies or patterns of adaptation of firms for responding to environmental requirements or expectations. We specifically analyze the influence of the different pressure agents or stakeholders oil the degree of proactivity of these patterns. We therefore propose and validate for types of environmental response pattern, representing particular configurations of both the scope of environmental objectives mid their allocation of internal resources...
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作者：Garcia-Canal, Esteban; Guillen, Mauro F.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Oviedo
摘要：Me argue that firms in regulated industries react to macroeconomic and policy risks hi sharply different ways. While they seek to avoid countries with high levels of macroeconomic uncertainty, we predict that they find it more attractive to expand into countries characterized by governments with discretionary policy making capacities so as to be able to negotiate favorable conditions of entry. Me also argue that firms are heterogeneous in their attitudes toward risk. Me predict that firms in w...
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作者：Marginson, David; Mcaulay, Laurie
作者单位：Cardiff University; Loughborough University
摘要：The debate on short-termism has focused on the economic factors of capital markets and performance measurement systems. Laverty (1996) has advocated the inclusion of individual and organizational dimensions to extend the debate. We reorient Laverty's extended debate by drawing upon a broad management and accounting literature and thereby develop testable theoretical explanations of short-termism. The resulting hypotheses are tested in a telecommunications company. Our findings provide support ...
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作者：Hull, Clyde Eirikur; Rothenberg, Sandra
作者单位：Rochester Institute of Technology
摘要：The impact of corporate social performance on firm financial performance has been examined previously with mixed results. This study examines the possibility that corporate social performance enhances financial performance by allowing the firm to differentiate, and that this effect may be moderated both by innovation, which also drives firm differentiation, and the level of differentiation in the industry. Hypotheses concerning both direct and moderating effects are developed and tested using ...
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作者：Sinha, Rajiv K.; Noble, Charles H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Mississippi
摘要：The emergence of dramatically innovative, or radical, new manufacturing technologies can force pivotal and life-threatening decisions for industry competitors. These technologies can represent a huge cost for adopting firms, but may also offer the chance to achieve competitive advantage through superior manufacturing. While prior research has considered a range of production process decisions (e.g., JIT mass customization) and outcomes for end-product technologies, little attention has been gi...
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作者：Kachra, Ariff; White, Roderick E.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; Pepperdine University
摘要：Using policy capture methodology, this study examines the effect of different contextual cues upon the know-how transfer efforts reported by 79 biotechnology R&D scientists. Theoretically, these different cues are believed to affect the scientists' expectation of reciprocity, and thus their know-how transfer behavior. Three types of contextual cues between the know-how source and recipient were studied: competitiveness, social relationship, and within or across firm boundaries. We find these c...
