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作者：Li, HY; Atuahene-Gima, K
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study examines the roles of firm characteristics and environmental factors in the formation of interfirm alliances. Specifically, we examine the dual role of these groups of factors as inducements and opportunities for Chinese high-technology new ventures (HTNVs) in their adoption of agency business activity, a downstream type of alliance involving marketing and distribution of the products of foreign firms. Results suggest that both internal and external factors are related to the adopti...
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作者：Schroeder, RG; Bates, KA; Junttila, MA
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Toronto; Aalto University
摘要：This paper examines manufacturing strategy front the perspective of the resource-based view of the firm. It explores the role of resources and capabilities in manufacturing plants that cannot be easily duplicated, and for which ready substitutes are not available. Such resources and capabilities are formed by employees' internal learning based on cross-training and suggestion systems, external learning from customers and suppliers, and proprietary processes and equipment developed by the firm....
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作者：Frost, TS; Birkinshaw, JM; Ensign, PC
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of London; London Business School; California State University System; San Jose State University
摘要：This paper seeks to understand the conditions under which 'centers of excellence' emerge in foreign subsidiaries of multinational firms. We define a center of excellence as an organizational unit that embodies a set of capabilities that has been explicitly recognized by the firm as an important source of value creation, with the intention that these capabilities be leveraged by and/or disseminated to other parts of the firm. Drawing on overlapping research in international business and strateg...
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作者：Madhok, A
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：In this paper, three points are argued. The first is that Ronald Coase, best known as the forefather of transaction cost theory, foresaw many of the critical questions that proponents of the resource-based vie v are concerned with today. The second is that resource-based theory plays a potentially much more critical role in economic theory and in explaining the institutional structure of production than even many resource-based scholars recognize. The last point is that a more complete underst...
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作者：Wright, G; Goodwin, P
作者单位：University of Strathclyde; University of Bath
摘要：This paper shows that, in terms of experimental design and ecological validity, the recent study by Hodgkinson et al. (1999) does not 'indicate that the framing bias is likely to be an important factor in strategic decision making.' Nor does it suggest that 'cognitive mapping provides an effective means of limiting the damage accruing from this bias.' We show that the framing bias demonstrated by Hodgkinson et al. can be removed by a simpler 'think-harder' manipulation with undergraduate respo...
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作者：McEvily, SK; Chakravarthy, B
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：Resource-based theory maintains that intrinsic characteristics of resources and capabilities, such as their tacitness, complexity, and specificity, prevent imitation and thereby prolong exceptional performance. There is little direct evidence to verify these claims, yet a substantial literature encourages firms to formulate competitive strategies around resources with these attributes. Further, work outside the resource-based tradition suggests that these attributes can slow innovation, and it...
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作者：Walker, G; Madsen, TL; Carini, G
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; Santa Clara University; Baylor University
摘要：This paper examines the variation in performance of incumbents and entrants following the deregulation of prices and entry in the airline industry. Our approach is similar to earlier studies of interfirm performance heterogeneity across industries. Drawing on theories of industry evolution, we hypothesize that the performance of entrants will have higher variance than incumbents. Further, given the opportunities offered by price deregulation, we propose that incumbents will have higher varianc...
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作者：Folta, TB; Miller, KD
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：We examine factors influencing the decision to acquire additional equity in partner firms in research-intensive industries. This decision involves choosing between flexibility and commitment. Option theory motivates hypotheses regarding the effects of uncertainty, valuation of developing technologies, and the threat of preemptive rivalry. Our main hypothesis is that the resolution of uncertainty for high-value technologies motivates commitment decisions. We also argue that when the underlying ...
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作者：Sakakibara, M
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This study investigates economic and strategic inducements of R&D cooperation. We focus on industry and company factors that affect a firm's rate of participation in R&D consortia. These factors are analyzed in a dynamic context using a sample of 312 Japanese firms in 74 industries between 1969 and 1992. We find a firm in an industry with weak competition and appropriability conditions has a higher rate of consortia participation. A firm's R&D capabilities, network formation through past conso...
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作者：Andersson, U; Forsgren, M; Holm, U
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：This paper explores the importance of relational embeddedness in external networks as a strategic resource for performance and competence development in multinational corporations (MNCs). Two different types of relational embeddedness at the subsidiary level-business embeddedness and technical embeddedness-are proposed to have an influence on the subsidiary's market performance as well as its importance for competence development in the MNC Using data on 97 Swedish MNC subsidiaries, five hypot...
