This article investigates how alliance portfolio composition affects young firms' outcomes. Drawing on signaling theory, we propose how alliance portfolio composition — number, functional domains (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing), and single-purpose or multi-purpose nature of alliances...

This paper explores the concept of structural embeddedness and proposes a construct, namely ‘contextual links', which are coordination mechanisms applied to activities that may embed activities and their underlying resources within their business units. The main argument is that if activities...

This paper examines how structural recombination of business units within a firm impacts subsequent firm innovation. We argue that structural recombination is both a means for firms to unlock the potential for intraorganizational knowledge recombination and a source of disruption to the firm's...

It is now well established in the Strategy literature that firms grow successfully and survive if they are able to alter their resource base on an ongoing basis (Teece, 2007; Helfat, Finkelstein, Mitchell, Peteraf, Teece and Winter, 2007; Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000; Capron and Mitchell, 2009; Helfat and...

This study examines how MNCs use strategic human capital appointments in the subsidiary executive team to manage tension between effective monitoring and local knowledge utilization when faced with subsidiary environment uncertainty. Using a sample of executives from 75 subsidiaries of 34 U.S....

In this research we investigate how magnitude and direction of resource flows between a firm and its alliance portfolio as well as the complementary nature of resources affect firm performance. Building on the resource dependence theory, we develop and test arguments on a sample of 59 firms in...