Information technology and firm performance: An integrative model of the role of complementarities -- Enhancing the performance effects of information technology through de/centralization: The role of corporate exploration and exploitation -- Hybrid strategy and firm performance: The moderating...

Advancing organizational reliability / Karlene H. Roberts -- The multiple meanings and models of reliability in organizational research / Rangaraj Ramanujam -- Three lenses for understanding reliable, safe, and effective organizations : strategic design, political, and cultural approaches / John...

Increasingly, scholars view reliability-the ability to plan for and withstand disaster-as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book...

Die Feststellung von Überlebensquoten und Wachstumsverläufen während der ersten fünf Jahre nach der Unternehmensgründung stellt das Hauptziel des Buches dar. Dazu erfolgt zunächst eine theoretische Fundierung des Themas. Aus den aktuellen kausalanalytischen Forschungsansätzen zur...