This dissertation investigates whether and why social structure influences cooperative organizational strategic decision making in an international relations context, and in particular, similar voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The economic and institutional embeddedness of...

Firms sometimes fail to capture opportunities, fail to imitate perfectly-imitable resources, and do not solve their solvable problems. The persistence of errors creates intra-industry performance variation that is usually attributed to the competitive advantages of successful firms. However,...

We review research on organizations to highlight prevailing and emerging conceptions for embeddedness. An integrated framework that considers the sources, mechanisms, outcomes, and strategic implications of embeddedness is presented. Also, promising research directions for embeddedness...

Les théories de la création de valeur et du succès des firmes en stratégie considèrent principalement la notion d'avantage concurrentiel ou des explications qui viennent de « l'axe d'avantage ». Bien qu'utiles, ces approches souffrent de plusieurs problèmes et limitent notre analyse et...