Firms’ top decision makers cannot possibly know what decisions to make. Rather, decision makers must interpret their situations and make the best possible decision based upon their interpretation of their situations. In this dissertation, I examine decision-makers’ goal orientations as...

A widely held belief is that resource constraints and industry conditions posesevere threats to the performance of entrepreneurial firms. While previous research linksresources controlled by these firms to different performance outcomes, extant researchon organizational performance often assumes...

Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular individuals. This type of resource can compose an important portion...

Firms form marketing and technology alliances to access other firms’ resources,and these alliances act as signals to investors. Investors use these signals to adjustexpectations about new venture performance prospects, but our understanding ofinvestor responses is incomplete because limited...

Managers within firms seek to align their portfolio of capabilities to best respondto their competitive environment. Processes used by firms to acquire resources, bundlethose resources into capabilities, and then leverage those capabilities to obtaincompetitive advantage are of interest to...