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Adding value through human resources: Reorienting human resource measurement to drive business performance

Yeung, Arthur K.; Berman, Bob - 1997

) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …

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If HR were really strategically proactive: Present and future directions in HR's contribution to competitive advantage

Brockbank, Wayne - 1999

Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …

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Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary, and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry

Nagarajan, Anuradha; Mitchell, Will - 1998

&D. Our theory draws on perspectives that emphasize the need to develop new competencies within a business organization and to …

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Firm and environmental influences on the mode and sequence of foreign research and development activities

Penner-Hahn, Joan Diane - 1998

This paper develops an explanation for the mode and sequence of entry that firms select for their international research and development activities. The hypotheses are based on the internalization and evolutionary theory perspectives. I first hypothesize that there is a sequence to the mode of...

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Entry into new market segments in mature industries: endogenous and exogenous segmentation in the U.S. brewing industry

Swaminathan, Anand - 1998

I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource-partitioning, that could independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries. The niche formation argument focuses on environmental changes that promote the entry of new firms whereas the...

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Path-dependent and path-breaking change: reconfiguring business resources following acquisitions in the U.S. medical sector, 1978–1995

Karim, Samina; Mitchell, Will - 2000

This paper studies how firms use acquisitions to achieve long-term business reconfiguration. We base the study in a … routine-based perspective on business dynamics. We develop and test hypotheses concerning the relative extent of change by … between 1978 and 1995. We find that acquisitions play a major role in business reconfiguration, offering opportunities for …

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How much do your co-opetitors' capabilities matter in the face of technological change?

Afuah, Allan - 2000

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...

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Learning and protection of proprietary assets in strategic alliances: building relational capital

Kale, Prashant; Singh, Harbir; Perlmutter, Howard - 2000

One of the main reasons that firms participate in alliances is to learn know-how and capabilities from their alliance partners. At the same time firms want to protect themselves from the opportunistic behavior of their partner to retain their own core proprietary assets. Most research has...

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Absolute and relative resources as determinants of international acquisitions

Anand, Jaideep; Delios, Andrew - 2002

Although it is established that firms sometimes expand abroad to augment their capabilities, previous studies have generally focused on technological determinants of foreign expansion. We analyze capability-seeking aspects of foreign direct investment by examining the relationship between...

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Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm

Jensen, Michael; Zajac, Edward J. - 2004

This study combines elements of the upper echelons and agency perspectives to resolve some of the ambiguity surrounding how corporate elites affect corporate strategy. We propose and test the notion that while differences in individual characteristics of corporate elites may imply different...

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