The Strategic Management field has matured over the last decade. We now face a number of critical issues that, taken together, suggest that now is the time to take hold of new ideas for explaining and predicting organizational performance. First, our courses--once among the most exciting and...

This research paper explores the conditions under which a firm is more/less likely to incur the Penrose Effect when expanding in a foreign market. We posit that multinational firms that can accelerate the development of new managerial resources in their foreign operations have greater...

This study directly tests how, to what extent, and in what ways different institutional levels influence organizational action. It responds to the call for multi-level research in institutional theory, as prior research has mostly focused on studying one level of analysis. We examine how...

Some scholars have been so blunt as to claim that information technology is the answer to all the problems facing supply chain managers. We posit that, although information technology integration is necessary for a supply chain to succeed, people are also crucial for supply chain management to...

The knowledge context is the social, economic, and organizational setting within which an individual is situated. This paper ties together observations from three distinct empirical areas of the entrepreneurship literature--academic entrepreneurship, employee entrepreneurship, and user...

This paper asks how the structuring of categories and their social location can impact organisational theory in general and institutional theory in particular. Following Bourdieu, we divide categories into two classes, namely those within the field, and those within the habitus (i.e. within the...

This paper develops and empirically tests a theory of the use of board and institutional investor monitoring and the use of executive incentive compensation under different types of uncertainty in the industry. This empirical examination is based on a sample of U.S. firms operating in a wide...

Assessments of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of behaviors play an important role in interactions in multinational corporations (MNCs). We develop a model of appropriateness that that illustrates how various arrangements in MNCs (e.g., geocentric staffing) may work to influence the...

This paper constructs a simplified framework for analyzing the welfare effects of free trade areas. We provide an alternative proof of the Panagariya-Krishna proposition on free trade areas, shortening the proof, covering a broader set of circumstances, and showing that the necessary income...

A common finding in research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is that these deals fail during integration in part due to a lack of connectivity with regard to the human side of merging organizations. A dilemma is that employees from the merging firms need to learn how to work together in the...