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作者：Forbes, DP
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This study helps to explain why some new ventures make strategic decisions more quickly than others. Drawing on life course theory and human capital theory, I develop a model of how entrepreneurs' individual characteristics affect new venture decision speed. I test the model using survey data from 98 Internet startups and their founder/managers. Results show that firms made faster decisions when they were managed by older entrepreneurs and by those with prior entrepreneurial experience. In add...
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作者：Bansal, P
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This study operationalizes corporate sustainable development and examines its organizational determinants. Data for this project pertain to Canadian firms in the oil and gas, mining, and forestry industries from 1986 to 1995. I find that both resource-based and institutional factors influence corporate sustainable development. By exploring time-related effects, I also find that media pressures were important in early periods and resource-based opportunities endured over time. This finding chal...
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作者：Ethiraj, SK; Kale, P; Krishnan, MS; Singh, JV
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the notion of capabilities as all important source of competitive advantage. This recognition has, in turn, placed emphasis on the question of where and how these capabilities emerge and how they influence firm performance. The present paper is an attempt to address this question. Using a large sample of detailed project-level data from a leading firm in the global software services industry, we attempt to empirically study the importance of c...
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作者：Moran, P
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This paper examines the impact of managers' social capital on managerial performance. Two dimensions of social capital are compared-the structural embeddedness (i.e., configuration) of a manager's network of work relations and the relational embeddedness (i.e., quality) of those relations. Based on a sample of 120 product and sales managers in a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical firm, this paper presents evidence indicating that both elements of social capital influence managerial performance, althou...
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作者：McNamara, G; Aime, F; Vaaler, PM
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Hawawini, Subramanian, and Verdin (2003) examined the relative impact of industry- vs. firm-level factors shaping firm performance. They demonstrated that variance in firm performance attributable to industry-level factors increases, while variance attributable t to firm-level factors decreases when 'exceptionally' higher- and lower-performing 'outlier' firms in each industry are excluded. They concluded that previous research underestimated the relative impact of industry-level factors for 'a...
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作者：Werner, S; Tosi, HL; Gomez-Mejia, L
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Bocconi University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This research investigated how the ownership structure is related to the firm's overall compensation strategy. The findings extend previous research that focused primarily on CEO compensation strategy. We show that there are significant differences in the compensation practices that apply to all employees as a function of the ownership structure. The results show that for owner-controlled firms and owner-managed firms there is significant pay/performance sensitivity for all employees. In manag...
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作者：Dushnitsky, G; Lenox, MJ
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Duke University
摘要：We explore the conditions under which firms are likely to pursue equity investment in new ventures as a way to source innovative ideas. We find that firms invest more in new ventures-commonly referred to as 'corporate venture capital'-in industries with weak intellectual property protection and, to some extent, in industries with high technological ferment and where complementary distribution capability is important. Furthermore, we find that the greater a firm's cash flow and absorptive capac...
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作者：Hiller, NJ; Hambrick, DC
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Researchers have long been interested in how an executive's self-concept affects his or her behaviors, but have lacked a theoretically grounded, validated construct for conducting systematic inquires. The concept of 'core self-evaluation' (CSE), which has been recently validated in the psychology literature, concisely encompasses and consolidates the common, overlapping portions of four previously unconnected personality dimensions: self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional s...
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作者：Haas, MR; Hansen, MT
作者单位：Cornell University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper explores the possibility that utilizing the firm's knowledge resources to complete important tasks can backfire and undermine competitive performance. Drawing on organizational capabilities and knowledge-sharing research, we develop a situated performance view that holds that the value of obtaining and using knowledge within a firm depends on the task situation. Using a data set of 182 sales proposals for client work in a management consulting company, we show that sales teams that ...
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作者：Foss, K; Foss, NJ
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Property rights economics furthers the resource-based view of strategic management in a number of ways. First, resources are conceptualized as being composed of multiple attributes for which property rights may be held. Second, a resource owner's ability, to create, appropriate, and sustain value from resources depends on the property rights that he or she holds and on the transaction costs of exchanging, defining, and protecting them. While transaction costs are a major source of value dissip...
