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作者：Baum, JR; Wally, S
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Chapman University System; Chapman University
摘要：This 4-year study examines the effect of strategic decision speed upon subsequent firm performance and identifies environmental and organizational characteristics that related to decision speed. We draw upon strategic decision-making theory and organization theory to propose that strategic decision speed mediates the relation between environmental and organizational characteristics and performance. Measures of business environment, organization structure, strategic decision speed, and firm per...
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作者：Maritan, CA; Brush, TH
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Adopting new practices to develop capabilities and enhance competitiveness is a goal for many firms. This study of a corporate initiative to implement flow manufacturing in multiple plants highlights some elements of the interaction between the content of a complex practice, the sources of the practice knowledge, and the characteristics and competitive priorities of the recipients of the practice. Heterogeneity among the plants, stemming from both differences in resource endowments and differe...
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作者：Peteraf, MA; Bergen, ME
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Heterogeneity among rivals implies that each firm faces a unique competitive set, despite overlapping market domains. This suggests the utility of a firm-level approach to competitor identification and analysis, particularly under dynamic environmental conditions. We take such an approach in developing a market-based and resource-based framework for scanning complex competitive fields. By facilitating a search for functional similarities among products and resources, the framework reveals rele...
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作者：Blyler, M; Coff, RW
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：Who reaps the fruits of a dynamic capability? We argue that while social capital is essential for the acquisition, integration, and release of resources at the core of a dynamic capability, actors can also use social capital for personal gain. Thus, social capital may be a key to understanding both rent generation and rent appropriation. Even when causal ambiguity obscures individual contributions, they may use their social capital to establish credible claims on the rent. Specifically, employ...
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作者：Adner, R
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：B v identifying the possibility that technologies with inferior performance can displace established incumbents, the notion of disruptive technologies, pioneered by Christensen (1997), has had a profound effet on the way in which scholars and managers approach technology competition. While the phenomenon of disruptive technologies has been well documented, the underlying theoretical drivers of technology disruption are less well understood. This article identifies the demand conditions that en...
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作者：Marginson, DEW
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：The relationship between management control systems (MCS) and the strategy process is a largely unexplored area of strategic management. This paper reports the findings of an in-depth, longitudinal case study of a major British-based organization operating within the increasingly globalized telecommunications industry. Informed by Simons' (1991, 1994, 1995) theoretical model of the strategy process-MCS relationship, the study examines the nature and extent of this relationship at middle- and l...
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作者：Garcia-Pont, C; Nohria, N
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Navarra
摘要：The alliance dynamics among the 35 largest firms in the worldwide automobile industry indicates that the likelihood of an alliance between any two firms depends on the local density of alliances among the members of their strategic groups, rather than on the global density of alliances in the industry. These results suggest that firms most closely observe and imitate the strategic behavior of firms who occupy the same strategic niche rather than the behavior of firms in their industry defined ...
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作者：Mata, J; Portugal, P
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Banco de Portugal
摘要：We compare the survival of new domestic and foreign-owned firms. We analyze the determinants of the survival of new firms and investigate whether foreignness accounts for significant differences in the survival of new foreign and new domestic firms. We find survival to be determined by ownership advantages, size and growth strategies, the internal organization of firms, and by industry characteristics such as economies of scale, and industry entry and growth. After controlling for these charac...
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作者：Wright, P; Kroll, M; Lado, A; van Ness, B
作者单位：University of Memphis; University of Louisiana System; Louisiana Technical University; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Kansas State University
摘要：In this study, we examine in an agency-theoretic context the influence of executive equity stakes upon corporate strategy and firm value. We argue that beneficial, risk-increasing corporate strategies may initially be emphasized but non-value-maximizing, risk-reducing strategies may subsequently be emphasized as managers expand their stock ownership. We alternatively contend that stock options may have a consistently positive impact on firm risk taking and acquisition returns. The empirical fi...
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作者：Vermeulen, F; Barkema, H
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Tilburg University
摘要：Many potential benefits of foreign expansion have been identified in the literature, yet empirical support that multinational firms perform better than domestic firms is mixed. This paper takes a longitudinal perspective and argues that how much a firm benefits from having foreign subsidiaries depends on its process of internationalization. We argue that a firm's capacity to absorb expansion is subject to constraints: some expansion patterns increase profitability less than others, owing to di...
