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interorganizational relationships. We suggest that the degrees to which managers trust and distrust their partners during initial stages …; and (3) the interpretations that managers attribute to the behavior of their partners. Collectively, our arguments give …
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This paper develops and tests hypotheses on the influence of a manager’s knowledge inflows on this manager’s … exploration and exploitation activities. Based on a survey among managers of a leading electronics firm, the findings indicate, as … exploitation activities, while they do not relate to a manager’s exploration activities. Furthermore, as expected, bottom-up and …
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework of managerial knowledge integration and to illustrate the framework for three levels of management: front-line, middle, and top management. Based on the framework, propositions will be derived relating managerial knowledge...
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As a result of many changes in the competitive landscape, knowledge has become a crucial resource of firms, which has impelled firms to change their forms of organizing. Evidence suggests that internal networks, as such an alternative form of organizing, progress to emerge to facilitate the...
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This paper discusses key properties of the N-form corporation or internal network forms of organizing from three mutually related perspectives: structure, knowledge flows and management processes. To operationalize knowledge flows, a key property of N-forms, the paper suggests a new measure, the...
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Manuscript Type: Literature review. Research Question/Issue: Over the last four decades, research on the relationship between boards of directors and strategy has proliferated. Yet to date there is little theoretical and empirical agreement regarding the question of how boards of directors...
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managers of Dutch multinationals how their ex ante performance expectations compare to the subsidiary’s ex post performance …
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Despite their strategic importance firm’s motivations to extend brands have received only modest attentions by marketing scholars. We use multiple events duration models to examine the timing of launching brand extensions. We provide a theoretical framework of brand extensions based on the...
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During the 1990s Baan Company became a market leader in the enterprise applications industry. Its mission was to become an independent software manufacturer, serving a global market. To speed up growth, Baan developed its Baan Web strategy which implied a far-reaching renewal of its corporate...
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Business is becoming increasingly international. At the same time, governments are intervening more in the conduct of business. A further development is the growing significance of emerging economies, many of which have a tradition of active government involvement with business. Taken together,...
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