A substantial amount of prior research has focused on the conflicting demands put on managers in multinational corporations (MNCs) as a result of simultaneous pressures for local responsiveness and global integration. However, despite this research we do not really understand how managers in...

This study is about helping managers identify and enhance the idiosyncratic firm resources required for delivering superior perceived use value to customers. Specifically, the research has focused on the organisational knowledge required for routinised service delivery, and has operationalised...

This is a study of managers' perceptions of the strategicpriorities in their strategic business unit (SBU). The perceptionsmanagers have of the current competitive strategy of their SBUare used to explore four main research themes. Managers'perceptions are accessed through a brief,...

This research – which was motivated by a perceived gap between thereality of the world of the strategic leader and leadershipdevelopment practice - offers an integrated perspective on thedimensions, development, and deployment of strategic leadercapability. In the first of three thematically...

We consider how profit has been explained and justified. We then build on property rights theory to develop an alternative explanation of profits and conclude that profits can be considered as an implicit payment for access to the assets required for an individual's labour to be market...

We assemble a model of the firm that brings together contributions from transactions costs economics, the resource based view of the firm with insights from socio-technical and structural theories of organisation, and theories of bargaining and power relationships between the firm and its...

We consider how profit has been explained and justified. We then build on property rights theory to develop an alternative explanation of profits and conclude that profits can be considered as an implicit payment for access to the assets required for an individual's labour to be market...

This paper offers a critique of the micro-foundations agenda by arguing that excessive attention to macro-level concepts and their origins threatens to derail the true potential of micro-foundations research – the resurgence of the interest in micro-level phenomena. The paper offers a critical...

Resource-based advantages are ‘built', not bought, and have typically emerged from complex development processes that are, to a significant degree, ‘unmanaged'. Set against this reality are strategy process prescriptions that encourage managers to adopt deliberate, formal, analytical...

The dynamic capability perspective extends the resource-based view argument by addressing how valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and imperfectly substitutable resources can be created and how the current stock of valuable resources can be refreshed in changing environments. The concept of...