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作者：Tippins, MJ; Sohi, RS
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：Many companies have developed strategies that include investing heavily in information technology (IT) in order to enhance their performance. Yet, this investment pays off for some companies but not others. This study proposes that organization learning plays a significant role in determining the outcomes of IT. Drawing from resource theory and IT literature, the authors develop the concept of IT competency. Using structural equations modeling with data collected from managers in 271 manufactu...
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作者：Henderson, J; Cool, K
作者单位：Babson College; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Previous research has provided conflicting arguments and evidence on which corporate governance system-bank based or market based-is better in preventing managers from investing in value-destroying projects. This paper attempts to further the debate by comparing the effect of these different corporate governance systems on preventing capacity expansion bandwagon behavior in the worldwide petrochemical industry in the period 7975-95. Our study shows, first, that neither system is particularly e...
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作者：Nachum, L
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：This study was inspired by the observation that foreign financial service firms operating in the City of London do not suffer the liability of foreignness to the extent suggested by theory. To examine the reasons for this departure from theory, the study advances a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of advantages that together account for the competitive performance of MNEs relative to that of indigenous firms. Empirical analyses of a sample of 296 foreign financial s...
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作者：Lin, XH; Germain, R
作者单位：University of Louisville; University of Windsor
摘要：This study develops a model grounded in the contingency theory (i.e., context-structure-performance) applicable to Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Using data from a sample of 205 industrial SOEs, the study shows that SOE growth performance relative to the industry is positively predicted by formal control, inversely predicted by decentralization, and positively predicted by the interaction of the two. Customer product knowledge utilization, unrelated to growth performance relative to t...
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作者：Makadok, R
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：This paper models the joint impact of two determinants of profitable resource advantages: the accuracy of managers' expectations about the future value of a resource, and the severity of agency problems that cause managers' interests to diverge from those of shareholders. While the impact of each of these factors on resource-investment decisions has been considered in isolation, their joint interaction effect has never been examined. The model generates the following set of testable hypotheses...
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作者：Ruefli, TW; Wiggins, RR
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Memphis
摘要：The literature investigating the degree to which firm performance is associated with industry, or corporate factors has recently been subject to criticism on the grounds of both methodological shortcomings and incomplete interpretation of results. Our research goes beyond these critiques to raise more basic issues concerning the assumptions underlying variance decomposition, the methodology dominating the antecedent literature. Performance data and categorizations from a sample consistent with...
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作者：Bruton, GD; Ahlstrom, D; Wan, JCC
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Research done primarily in the United States has shown that firms in decline enjoy better odds of returning to health when strong measures are taken. The culture of the Overseas Chinese of East Asia has helped to shape the region's prior commercial success but it also impacts responses to firm decline and turnaround. This research provides the first empirical investigation of the turnaround strategies of Overseas Chinese firms in East Asia. The evidence gathered shows that the utility of the p...
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作者：Grant, RM
作者单位：Georgetown University
摘要：The long-running debate between the 'rational design' and 'emergent process' schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms' strategic planning processes, but little empirical evidence of whether and how companies plan. Despite the presumption that environmental turbulence renders conventional strategic planning all but impossible, the evidence from the corporate sector suggests that reports of the demise of strategic planning are greatly exaggerated. The goal of this paper is...
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作者：Wiklund, J; Shepherd, D
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Jonkoping University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Jonkoping University
摘要：While theory suggests that management has discretion in manipulating resources in order to build competitive advantage, resource-based research has focused on the characteristics of resources, paying less attention to the relationship between those resources and the way firms are organized. In explaining performance, entrepreneurship scholars have focused on a firm's entrepreneurial strategic orientation (EO), leaving its interrelationship with internal characteristics aside. We argue that EO ...
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作者：Brouthers, KD; Brouthers, LE; Werner, S
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas El Paso; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：According to transaction cost theory, firms select the international mode of entry that provides the most efficient form of governance. However, previous scholarship largely neglects the impact of transaction cost variables on entry mode choice and firm performance. In this study, we add transaction cost variables to a set of variables previously used to predict firm mode choice and performance. We theorize and find that firms selecting these 'transaction cost-enhanced international entry mode...
