Purpose - The paper aims to assess the impact of corporate strategy on shareholder value in decline and turnaround situations. Design/methodology/approach - A sample of 45 turnaround firms was selected and matched against a control sample which did not face continuous decline over the time...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to incorporate knowledge concepts into analytical models of strategy formulation and the strategic theory of the firm. Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines four different perspectives of the elusive concept of "knowledge",...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic profiles and differences across globally leading business schools. Design/methodology/approach - This paper used the concepts of strategic group identity and domain consensus to examine the differences across the business...

This dissertation provides extensive empirical evidence--a large sample study over a long period--about the link between strategy and shareholder value. In contrast to the typical measure of shareholder value--stock price times the number of shares outstanding--this dissertation uses beta excess...

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The primary goal of this research is to assess the ways in which rival organizations interact. It is argued that they will generally cooperate as well as compete with each other as they attempt to manage their interdependence. A dilemma of the commons is used as a metaphor to describe the nature...

This dissertation reports the results of three pilot studies, one background field study, and a large survey to buyers and suppliers of market-data systems. The dissertation uses a cognitive perspective on market structuring, competitive definitions, and rivalry.

This study investigates the empirical relationship between synergy and related diversification. Multi-dimensional measures of related diversification and relatedness are developed. These are hypothesized to be correlated with synergy, also a multi-dimensional construct. It is argued that...

This is a study of financial and strategic factors relating to the failure and bankruptcy of 73 firms that went bankrupt from 1980 to 1986. The characteristics of the bankrupt firms were compared with those of a matching sample of nonbankrupt firms. On average the bankrupt firms were weaker than...

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper examines some of the controversies facing business schools in their future evolution and pays particular attention to their competitive positioning as centres of management research. Design/methodology/approach ? The paper combines and builds on current...