This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model to predict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature by modeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open space decisions made under a...

The object of the present analysis is organizational slack. The paper targets at a "slack type" which consists of basic information deriving from slack functions, slack conditions, antecedents of slack and dispositional requirements of slack. The purpose of the analysis is the creation of a...

Alliances have been studied extensively in the past and various arguments suggested to explain their evolution and eventual termination. We argue that one important explanation of alliance termination has remained overlooked, one where the mechanism revolves around resource value and is...

In this paper we investigate the ways in which new forms of organization enabled by digital technologies such as crowdsourcing and digital marketplaces are allowing firms to circumvent and defy traditional knowledge constraints. This is part of the broader question of when and why these forms of...

Consulting firms (CFs) sell services on a project basis to many clients and must therefore continuously tender for new contracts. One frequently used strategy by CFs is to visit the clients in connection to the tenders. The reasons to the visits are: (1) to influence the client in his...

In den letzten Jahren haben Veränderungsgeschwindigkeit und Komplexität der betrieblichen Umwelt drastisch zugenommen. Die Betriebsstrukturen entsprechen den daraus resultierenden Anforderungen oftmals nicht mehr. Häufig sind die bestehenden Organisationen zu fragmentiert und zu hierarchisch...

While academic and practitioner literature has advocated the use of real options in firms' long-term investment appraisal processes, few studies have examined the extent to which real options are incorporated into decisions when they are made available. We experimentally examine supervising...

We investigate the relationship between board independence and firm's long-term performance, as measured by Tobin's q. In a longitudinal sample of 1,143 firms in the S&P 1500 list from 1997 through 2006, we find some evidence of a significant nonlinear relationship. Two of three nonlinear models...

There is a heightened lack of clarity and understanding about the new U.S. business forms both in terms of theory and practice, especially with regard to relative priorities of social good (or the absence thereof), decision-making, and meaningful accountability thereto (or the lack thereof). As...