Understanding the phenomena of corporate longevity and self-renewing organizations has become an important topic in recent management literature. However, the majority of the research contributions focus on internal determinants of longevity and self-renewal. Using a co-evolutionary framework,...

How do large well-established firms renew themselves in an increasing turbulent environment? Is there a generic pattern of change or is each change journey rather idiosyncratic? We posed five questions about the nature of renewal patterns. First, how do firms combine external versus internal...

How do large well-established firms renew themselves in an increasing turbulent environment? Is there a generic pattern of change or is each change journey rather idiosyncratic? We posed five questions about the nature of renewal patterns. First, how do firms combine external versus internal...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

Biotech revolution changed the pharmaceutical industry, triggering a wave of risky collaborations between rivals. Based on the research findings, we answer the question why cooperation in the field of immuno-oncology is a better strategy for Pfizer and Merck KGaA, which aim to achieve...

Spanish Abstract: El centro comercial ha sido un amplio tema de estudio para investigadores de diversas ramas; ha pasado desde un centro que permite la interacción entre consumidores y vendedores al planteamiento de ser una experiencia familiar que permite visitar el centro comercial para...

Assume the revised methodological structure defined here as OPD theory is adopted for social science. Assume the improved methodology is applied to build a general theory of psychology, a general theory of organizations derived from the general theory of psychology, and a general theory of...

Recent critiques of internationalization process models question the wisdom of delaying internationalization. Internationalizing late allows firms to assemble resources and gain experience but also allows inertia to develop. We resolve this tension by positing that internationalization has...

Marketing strategists should create, maintain, and arrest the decay of causally ambiguous resource competences that lead to competitiveness and thus performance. However, competence causal ambiguity, which helps create competitiveness, is also implicated in competitiveness decay. In this study...

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...