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作者：Davis, JH; Schoorman, FD; Mayer, RC; Tan, HH
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Baylor University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Employee trust for the general manager is proposed as an internal organizational characteristic that provides a competitive advantage for the firm. This paper empirically examines the relationship between trust for a business unit's general manager and organizational performance. Trust was found to be significantly related to sales, profits and employee turnover in the restaurant industry. Managers who were either more or less trusted differed significantly in perceptions of their ability, ben...
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作者：Afuah, A
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms' competitive advantage when the technological change instead renders obsolete the capabilities of their co-opetitors-the suppliers, customers, and complementers whose very success may underpin that of the firm and with whom it must collaborate and compete. This paper explores the eff...
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作者：Langlois, RN; Steinmueller, WE
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Sussex
摘要：In the mid-1980s, Japanese firms strongly challenged American dominance of the semiconductor industry. A large literature arose to suggest that, in order to survive, American firms needed to adopt the capabilities and strategies of the Japanese. Recently, American firms have indeed surged back to regain a strong position in the industry. This essay attempts to collect some of the lessons for strategy research of that American resurgence. We argue that, although some of the American response di...
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作者：Makadok, R; Walker, G
作者单位：Emory University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：Testing the causal link between a firm-specific competence and its antecedents or consequences has become a key objective for strategy research over the past decade. On one hand, case studies can identity a competence, but with their small sample size, their retrospective research design, and their tendency toward sampling on the dependent variable, they can not reliably rest the causal connection between a competence and its antecedents or its consequences. On the other hand, variance decompo...
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作者：Brouthers, KD; Brouthers, LE
作者单位：University of East London; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：In this paper, we develop and test a model of diversification mode choice (how firms decide between acquisitions and greenfield start-up ventures) which includes institutional, cultural, and transaction cost variables. Using a sample of Japanese firms entering western Europe, our results show the model correctly predicts over eighty-seven percent of the mode choices. Thus, we provide strong initial evidence to support using institutional, cultural and transaction cost variables to predict firm...
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作者：Gupta, AK; Govindarajan, V
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Dartmouth College
摘要：Pursuing a nodal (i.e., subsidiary) level of analysis, this paper advances and tests art overarching theoretical framework pertaining to intracorporate knowledge transfers within multinational corporations (MNCs). We predicted that (i) knowledge outflows from a subsidiary would be positively associated with value of the subsidiary's knowledge stock, its motivational disposition to share knowledge, and the richness of transmission channels; and (ii) knowledge inflows into a subsidiary would be ...
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作者：Konrad, AM; Mangel, R
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This research examined the adoption of work-life programs and the impact of work-life programs on firm productivity. Human resource executives in a national sample of 658 organizations provided survey data on firm characteristics and work-life programs. In these 658 organizations, the percentage of professionals and the percentage of women employed were positively related to the development of more extensive work-life programs. Productivity data were obtained from CD Disclosure for 195 public,...
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作者：McWilliams, A; Siegel, D
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; University of Nottingham
摘要：Researchers have reported a positive, negative, and neutral impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on financial performance. This inconsistency may be due to flawed empirical analysis. In this paper, we demonstrate a particular flaw in existing econometric studies of the relationship between social and financial performance. These studies estimate the effect of CSR by regressing firm performance on corporate social performance, and several control variables. This model is misspecified...
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作者：Sorenson, O
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Managers must choose to allocate scarce resources either to the maintenance of a range of products tailored to heterogeneous consumer preferences or to the efficient production of a small number of products. In addition, managers must choose the degree to which they periodically cull the product line. Vigorous selection removes poor performers from the product line, but this action simultaneously impairs the firm's ability to monitor changes in consumer preferences. Empirical evidence from the...
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作者：Brush, TH; Bromiley, P; Hendrickx, M
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The paper investigates the agency argument that sales growth in pms with free cash flow (and without strong governance) is less profitable than safes growth for firms without free cash flow. It also tests whether strong governance conditions improve the performance of firms with free cash flow and/or limit the investments in unprofitable safes growth. Consistent with agency theory, firms with free cash flow gain less from safes growth than firms without free cash flow. But different governance...
