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An overview of the role of information technology in strategic management: Part 2
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006
Strategic management of the firm includes the strategic management of information technology in the context of business relationships. Firms do not exist in isolation. Multiple constituents make up a relationship network that constitutes the vital resources needed to fulfil the mission of a...
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The effects of perceived industry competitive intensity and marketing-related capabilities: Drivers of superior brand performance
O'Cass, Aron; Weerawardena, Jay - 2010
Since the early 1990s the theoretical and practical issues associated with organizational capabilities have been a major research focus in marketing. However, there has been little focus simultaneously on industry environment and internal competitive capability development. A manager's...
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Examining Curvilinearity and Moderation in the Relationship between the Degree of Relatedness of Individual Diversification Actions and Firm Performance
Cernas Ortiz, Daniel Arturo - 2011
Corporate diversification continues to be an important phenomenon in the modern business world. More than thirty years of research on diversification suggests that the degree of relatedness among a firm's business units is a factor that can affect firm performance, but the true effect of...
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Organizational resources, industry membership, and firm performance: the role of capability formation and use in value creation for IPO-stage new ventures
Hitt, Michael A. (contributor);  … - 2007
organizational performance for new ventures following an initial publicoffering (IPO). Building from resource-based theory and … contingency theory, I examinethe indirect (through capability formation and use) effects that occur within the ‘blackbox’ between … resources and performance for a sample of entrepreneurial firmsundertaking an IPO. New theory is offered to explain the …
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Determinants of new technology-based firms performance in catch-up regions: evidence from the U.S. biopharmaceutical and IT service industries 1996-2005
Xiao, Wenbin - 2008
This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in catch-up regions where a mature industrial cluster has yet to be formed. It hypothesized that the average NTBF performance in a region is a function of its...
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Allianzfähigkeit
Kupke, Sören - 2008
Ein empirisch belegtes Phänomen ist die steigende Anzahl strategischer Allianzen von Unternehmen, speziell in dynamischen Wettbewerbsumgebungen. Über strategische Allianzen versuchen Unternehmen, auch in einer dynamischen Wettbewerbsumwelt unter hoher Unsicherheit Wettbewerbsvorteile...
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Strategic Opportunity Management
Junge, Philip - 2009
Today we live in a world that is characterized by a constantly changing environment. During the last decade, this highly volatile environment forced companies to implement strategies that identify, track and minimise the risks that entrepreneurial activity entails. Unfortunately, risks only...
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Ressourcen, Transaktionen und Renten : Organisations?konomische und Ressourcenorientierte Begr?ndung effizienter Organisation
Winterhalder, Sven - 2006
and leads to the "transaction-rent-view" of economic organisation, on the pathway to a "Strategic Theory of the Firm". …
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Is corporate social responsibility linked with firm performance? An alternative test
Galbreath, Jeremy; Shum, P. - 2009
Direct tests between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) have been argued to be a futile pursuit. Following this line of thinking, the present study sought to test an alternative model in understanding the CSR-FP relationship. Specifically, reputation and customer...
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