-
作者：Stieglitz, Nils; Heine, Klaus
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Free University of Berlin
摘要：In the resource-based view of strategy and in evolutionary economics, complementary assets play a crucial role in explaining sustainable competitive advantages and innovations. Despite the apparent importance of complementary assets for the understanding of corporate strategy, their creation and the associated managerial problems have been much less discussed. We believe this to be a major weakness in the strategic theory of the firm. Interestingly, problems of coordination and cooperation are...
-
作者：Moliterno, Thomas P.; Wiersema, Margarethe F.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Dynamic capabilities manifest the organizational capacity to purposefully create or modify the firm's resource base. In this paper, we consider resource divestment an important firm-level resource management capability that manifests a two-step organizational change routine. Finns must first be motivated to engage in resource divestment, and then decide which resources should be 'sold off.' In exploring this firm-level capability, we employ factor market theory to consider the 'seller side' of...
-
作者：Mani, Sudha; Anita, Kersi D.; Rindfleisch, Aric
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：Over the last two decades, strategy researchers have sought to understand the ownership structure of firms' foreign direct investments (FDI) as reflected in entry mode and equity level. However, prior FDI research has ignored the interrelated nature of these key FDI decisions. In addition, prior research does not fully account for the fact that individual ownership structure decisions occur within the context of a firm's broader FDI portfolio, and thus reflect a wide and frequently unobserved ...
-
作者：Capaldo, Antonio
作者单位：Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
摘要：This paper employs comparative longitudinal case study research to investigate why and how strong dyadic interfirm ties and two alternative network architectures (a 'strong ties network' and a dual network') impact the innovative capability of the lead firm in an alliance network. I answer these intrinsically cross-level research questions by examining how three design-intensive furnishings manufacturers managed their networks of joint, design alliances with consulting industrial design firms ...
-
作者：Lee, Gwendolyn K.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper focuses on the role of network resources and examines the associated mechanisms that affect the timing of entry into an emerging product market. Linking network theory to market entry research, I analyze the pattern in the structure, relation, and composition of 517 firms' strategic alliances as the firms face the decision of whether and when to enter the networking switches market over a 13-year period from 1989 to 2001. The context for empirical testing is the voice/data convergen...
-
作者：Terlaak, Ann; King, Andrew A.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Dartmouth College
摘要：We extend understanding of information-revealing bandwagons by considering a common condition under which adoption of a practice by small organizations, rather than large ones, has a disproportionate influence on future adoption propensities. We hypothesize that when the value of adoption increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate...
-
作者：Wang, Lihua; Zajac, Edward J.
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University; Northwestern University
摘要：For firms seeking to strategically combine their resources with those of other firms, two popular alternative governance structures emerge: alliance or acquisition. In this paper, we propose a dyadic perspective to examine how and why configurations of two firms' resources and capabilities affect the costs and benefits associated with each governance structure. More specifically, we posit that factors such as (1) the resource similarity and complementarity between a pair of firms, (2) the comb...
-
作者：Shervani, Tasadduq A.; Frazier, Gary; Challagalla, Goutam
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; University of Southern California; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Transaction cost economics (TCE) has guided a variety of research on governance in the strategic management literature. An important question arises, however, as to whether the TCE framework is equally appropriate for all types of firms in all business settings. In this paper, we argue that TCE is not and suggest that firms with high market power may be able to lower transaction costs under high asset specificity and uncertainty in nonintegrated distribution channels, avoiding the need to util...
-
作者：de Rond, Mark; Thietart, Raymond-Alain
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; ESSEC Business School
摘要：We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chalice, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing oil this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between each of them and their comparative significance. The paper thus aims at achieving three objectives: (a) to articulate a philosophically sustainable theory of strategic choice that corroborates experi...
-
作者：Nag, Rajiv; Hambrick, Donald C.; Chen, Ming-Jer
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Virginia
摘要：It is commonly asserted that the field of strategic management is fragmented and lacks a coherent identity. This skepticism, however, is paradoxically at odds with the great success that strategic management has enjoyed. How might one explain this paradox? We seek answers to this question by relying first on a large-scale survey of strategic management scholars from which we derive an implicit consensual definition of the field-as tacitly held by its members. We then supplement this implicit d...
