Journal ArticleOrganization Studies · December 1, 2024
While a large body of research explains how social movements elicit corporate change by focusing on confrontation of activists against targeted organizations, it remains unclear how the conflicts between activists and their primary targets affect non-targe ...
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Journal ArticleManagement and Organization Review · December 1, 2024
To begin with, I wish to thank Editor-in-Chief Xiao-Ping Chen for her initiative to celebrate MOR's twentieth anniversary by inviting a series of essays under the seductive title 'MOR and Me', with the overarching subtitle 'Chinese management research: Loo ...
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Book · January 1, 2024
This book serves as an introductory volume to Yair Aharoni’s remarkable impact on international business (IB) research. Most IB researchers will be familiar with at least one aspect of his work, but relatively few will be familiar with his broader body of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · July 1, 2023
In this paper, the term “Country Strategic Patent Policy” refers to the case in which the examination of foreign firms’ patent applications may be deliberately manipulated by national patent offices to protect domestic firms, as a means to leapfrogging the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of World Business · January 1, 2023
We argue that decoupling, defined as the process of weakening interdependence between two nations or blocs of nations, has been ongoing between China and the United States and is likely to accelerate, with major implications for IB and MNE strategies and m ...
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Journal ArticleManagement and Organization Review · August 14, 2022
The extensive narrative of growth and development of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) in China by Jiang and Murmann (2022) and the discussion of Chinese strengths and weaknesses portray the remarkable progress that China has made, espe ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Policy · June 1, 2022
What is the significance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for international business research? Most studies in the field have approached this question from the perspective of the individual firm or industry, with an emphasis on its business or eco ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · December 1, 2020
The concept of absorptive capacity (AC) of firms (Cohen and Levinthal 1989 and 1990) is a foundational feature of organizational learning and adaptation that has had enormous influence in international business (IB), and innovation studies and management r ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
In The past decade budgets have become widely accepted as the key element in the corporation's planning and control system. This is evident both from the extensive writings on the subject and from a random sampling of current textbooks in management in whi ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · August 1, 2018
Research Summary: This article studies how the logic of firm governance choices varies as a function of the time of adoption of particular sourcing practices. Using data on the diffusion of global business services sourcing as a management practice from ea ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
This chapter discusses the phenomenon of online marketplaces for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent and highlights its effect on knowledge creation and innovation through on-demand contract employment and problem solving of scientific ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Studies · August 1, 2017
The central focus of this paper is a largely unexplored research domain relating to how low-power for-profit actors can shape their political and regulatory environment and create economic opportunities that affect their survival and growth. The paper buil ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Innovation Studies · January 1, 2017
Open innovation has become a dominant innovation paradigm. However, the actual adoption of open innovation organizational designs and practices remains elusive, and ongoing examples of large companies practicing open innovation in mature industries or beyo ...
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Journal ArticleManagement and Organization Review · December 1, 2016
At the June 2016 meeting of the International Association for Chinese Management Research, MOR organized a symposium to discuss the mounting criticisms of empirical social science and subsequent changes, as part of ongoing discussions affecting journal rev ...
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Book · April 14, 2016
The miracle growth of the Chinese economy has decreased from a compound annual growth rate of 10% to less than 7% in 2015. The two engines of growth - export on a scale never before witnessed and massive infrastructure investments - are reaching the point ...
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Chapter · August 23, 2014
Aus Anlaß des 60. Geburtstages von Erich Frese geben renommierte Wissenschaftler und Unternehmenspraktiker einen differenzierten Einblick in den State of the Art der Organisationsforschung und zeigen neue Wege der Entwicklung auf. ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Studies · January 1, 2014
Drawing on two in-depth case studies, this paper develops a conceptual model of how absorptive capacity routines and their underlying processes of evolution influence the efficiency of management innovation adaptation processes. The model highlights three ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Management · March 1, 2013
This perspective paper highlights the changing dynamics underlying the supply and demand for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) talent. As a global ecosystem of innovation emerges, the emerging diaspora of STEM talent networks is pote ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in Global Strategic Management · December 1, 2011
In the late 1990s, Yair Aharoni was one of the early international business scholars who spearheaded exploration of FDI in services. This chapter reviews a more recent development of trade in business services that involves the demand for and the emergence ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Management Journal · August 1, 2011
This paper investigates the growth of offshoring administrative and technical task by German and US firms. We consider the relevant theories and related factors that influence the decision to initiate and pursue offshoring. We link offshoring implementatio ...
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Journal ArticleManagement International Review · June 1, 2011
Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service delivery opt ...
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Journal ArticleGroup and Organization Management · February 1, 2011
Offshoring has emerged as an important economic and social phenomenon that has generated intense interest from practitioners, the popular media, and policy makers. In addition, there is a nascent but rich research literature on offshoring developing in man ...
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Journal ArticleManagement International Review · February 1, 2011
This paper contributes to the emerging debate about offshoring of support functions in international business research. We analyze the success of offshoring activities and focus on the time a firm takes to achieve its expected cost savings and its targeted ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Business Review · January 1, 2011
In this introductory paper, we first discuss the emergence of global sourcing of business services and how these have been largely ignored in the IB field. Offshoring of business services has reached substantial proportions. Despite the radical growth, IB ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Business Review · January 1, 2011
A new field of research centered on the offshoring of white-collar tasks is opening. We analyze the choice of governance mode for international offshoring activities based on a four-fold framework that integrates multiple theoretical perspectives. Firms ch ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 2011
The 20 years following the introduction of the seminal construct of absorptive capacity (AC) by Cohen and Levinthal (Cohen, W. M., D. A. Levinthal. 1989. Innovation and learning: The two faces of R&D. Econom. J. 99(397) 569-596; Cohen, W. M., D. A. Levinth ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Management · December 1, 2010
This paper explores local and global dynamics underlying the development of knowledge services clusters, which we define as new geographic concentrations of technical talent and service providers offering upstream technical and knowledge-intensive business ...
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Journal ArticleIndustry and Innovation · August 27, 2010
In this study we investigate the role of corporate offshoring strategy on offshoring decisions and performance. Based on 876 offshoring projects from 226 companies obtained by means of surveys conducted in the USA and Europe, we examine the effect of offsh ...
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Journal ArticleStrategic Management Journal · February 1, 2010
Strategy researchers have argued that heterogeneity in firms' practices and profitability within and across industries may derive from industry-level differences in the extent of interdependencies among firms' activities. Theoretical models have clarified ...
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Chapter · September 2, 2009
This article explores the coevolution perspective as a new meta-theoretical lens for research in organization studies and for reintegrating organization theory and strategy. It is believed that coevolution frameworks will inform research in organization st ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · January 1, 2009
This paper empirically studies determinants of decision by companies to offshore innovation activities. It uses survey data from the international Offshoring Research Network project to estimate the impact of managerial intentionality, past experience, and ...
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Book · January 1, 2008
This volume is devoted to those areas that can advance our understanding of international business. It contains contributions from intellectual leaders of the field, using cutting edge research to explore frontier topics in international business, and to l ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 2008
This perspective paper addresses the issues of rigor and relevance in organizational studies in the context of idea migration and journal evolution. We argue that creeping parochialism can happen to any journal, which reflects an evolving narrowness within ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · July 19, 2007
In this perspective paper we argue that outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) undertaken as escape response to perceived misalignment between firm needs and home country institutional conditions represents an important but under-explored phenomenon in t ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · April 1, 2007
A systematic understanding of industry dynamics is critical to strategy research because individual firm performance dynamics both reflect and affect change at the industry level. Descriptive research on industry dynamics has identified a dominant pattern ...
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Journal ArticleLong Range Planning · June 1, 2006
This paper reports the findings from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN), which studies the offshoring of administrative and technical work to low-cost countries. Initial data suggest that offshoring is still at an early stage but growing rapidly. Howeve ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · May 1, 2006
Coordination of interdependencies among firms' productive activities has been advanced as a promising explanation for sustained heterogeneity in capabilities among firms. In this paper, we extend this line of research to determine the industry structures a ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Policy · December 1, 2005
Firms vary greatly in their rates of creating and adopting technological and organizational innovations, in part because of their choice of reference group. We argue that the selection of a reference group is a crucial and neglected source of firm heteroge ...
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Chapter · August 26, 2004
This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. ...
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Chapter · August 26, 2004
This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. ...
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Chapter · 2004
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge management relating it to business strategy, dynamic capabilities and firm performance. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Management Studies · December 1, 2003
The extensive selection-adaptation literature spans diverse theoretical perspectives, but is inconclusive on the role of managerial intentionality in organizational adaptation. Indeed this voluminous literature has more to say about selection and sources a ...
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Chapter · August 5, 2003
Sixteen international academics and researchers report findings from the Innovative Forms of Organizing (INNFORM) program, a collective endeavor of an international research network lead from Warwick Business School, UK, and involving six ... ...
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Chapter · 2003
This handbook provides a forum for leading researchers in organization theory to reflect on their own discipline: how it has developed and why; what sorts of knowledge claims it regards as acceptable and why; and where it may be, or should ... ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Policy · January 1, 2002
Students of innovation and evolutionary economists have long recognized the significance of organizational adaptation, as a consequence of changes in production technology and adoption of technological innovations and in understanding transformation of fir ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2000
More than a reader for business people in Southeast Asia, the book should be of interest to policy makers and all those interested in the shift from national to transnational business. ...
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Chapter · 2000
Like the rest of this best-selling series, this book is based on the "Financial Times" newspaper series and brings together the latest thinking from world-renowned experts on every subject area pertinent to business people today. " ...
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Chapter · 2000
Like the rest of this best-selling series, this book is based on the "Financial Times" newspaper series and brings together the latest thinking from world-renowned experts on every subject area pertinent to business people today. " ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Management Journal · January 1, 2000
Raising the odds of success of strategic alliances can have important performance consequences. It requires recognition that alliances are embedded in the strategies of each of the partners. The odds of success increase when the symmetry in the strategic e ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · June 1999
This special issue originated with the 1996 Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC), which set out to explore the implications of the science of complexity for the field of organization studies. Following the OSWC, a formal program organized ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 1999
This paper examines a single longitudinal case study of a professional service network in the public accounting industry, a network intentionally created and formally organized to pursue residual referral revenue for the member firms. Applying and extendin ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 1999
This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization-environment coevolution that generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm-level exploration and exploitation adaptations to changes in the population o ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 1999
In this paper, we set out to investigate whether strategic leadership matters at a moment in the life cycle of the firm when a change is made in the top leadership. By far, most of the conceptual and empirical literature on the consequences of CEO successi ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · August 1998
Hitotsubashi University and Organization Science cosponsored a conf erence on Asian Research in Organizations, which was held on the Hitotsubashi campus on October 19–22, 1995. Thirty papers were invited for presentation, out of more than 70 that ...
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Journal ArticleOrganization Science · January 1, 1998
This paper proposes a co-evolutionary theory of strategic alliances. The paper proposes a framework which views strategic alliances in the context of the adaptation choices of a firm. Strategic alliances, in this view, are embedded in a firm's strategic po ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of Operations Research · January 1, 1997
This chapter provides the formulations for the basic DEA models and the editors' introduction to the chapters which follow. ...
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Chapter · July 31, 1995
This book represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelop ment Analysis (DEA). It is the first reference text which includes a comprehensive review and comparative discussion of the basic DEA models. ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Journal of Operational Research · February 2, 1995
This paper builds on strategic group theory which was originally introduced to help explain the observed variation in firm profitability across an industry. This paper applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to identify both strategic leaders, the 'best pr ...
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ConferenceOrganization Studies · January 1, 1994
This paper argues that micro-level individual properties may be expressed in choices of macro-level organizational features. In particular, we believe that social-psychological attitudes of chief executive officers and general managers are a critical conti ...
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Chapter · 1993
They also show how a variety of factors - including demographics, team structure, and communication processes influence the effectiveness of key managers ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · May 1986
Concern with the effectiveness, productivity, efficiency or excellence of organizations is a subject that has motivated the writings of economists, organization theorists, management philosophers, financial analysts, management scientists, consult ...
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Chapter · 1982
A conference on decision making held in March 1981, brought together prominent researchers from Behavioral Decision Making, Human Problem Solving, and Organizational Decision Making to compare their theoretical positions, methods, and ... ...
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Journal ArticleOmega · January 1, 1982
In addition to being held accountable for judicial decision, courts, like other public agencies, can and should be evaluated in terms of their administrative efficiency. This paper illustrates how courts can be evaluated in terms of their relative administ ...
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Journal ArticleSimulation · January 1, 1982
Defense systems are typically over budget and behind schedule, and they often fail to meet performance specifications despite incentive schemes. Our study shows that these schemes are ineffective primarily because they assume (1) that a contractor's sole c ...
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Journal ArticleManagement Science · November 1981
The editorial policy of the department on “Organization Analysis, Performance and Design” encompasses research on the subject of State-Owned Enterprises. The paper “Managerial Strategic Behavior in State-Owned Enterprises-Business and Political Or ...
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ConferenceProceedings Winter Simulation Conference · December 3, 1979
The demand for defense systems is determined by a single buyer - the U.S. Department of Defense. In such an environment traditional competitive market mechanisms cannot be expected to operate effectively. Historically, the objective of procurement policies ...
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Journal ArticleProgress in Crystal Growth and Characterization · January 1, 1979
A description is presented of the development of decision process simulation models describing defense contractor motivation, management and performance. The computerized models employ feedback/adaptation/search mechanisms to describe the internal decision ...
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Journal ArticlePersonnel Psychology · January 1, 1979
This paper describes the development of an information processing theory of the judgmental process in which individuals engage while rating their peers. Using protocol tracing methods, decision process models were constructed of how individuals rate their ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Sciences · March 1, 1976
With the objective of improving policy making, efforts have recently intensified to integrate behavioral sciences, cost-effectiveness analysis, and related disciplines into an evolving field that has been termed "policy sciences." After reviewing some aspe ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Mathematical Sociology · January 1, 1975
This paper considers the statistical inference of structural properties in organizations. Specifically, the sampling probability distributions of the number of links and the cumulative distribution of the number of components are determined. Probability es ...
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Journal ArticleDecision Sciences · January 1, 1973
The complexity of interdependent structural systems greatly complicates the analysis of any single structure. This is particularly the case when a structure represents some behavioral process. For this reason it is necessary to devise measures which can di ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Psychology · October 1, 1971
Tested the importance of face-to-face interaction in the peer-rating process. Peer ratings were obtained from 95 interacting group members participating in a management game and were compared with ratings obtained from os who viewed 15-min videotapes of th ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Sciences · March 1, 1971
The increasing interest in policy sciences-the multidisciplinary activity concerned with decision-making for social problems-and the introduction of policy science programs in a number of leading universities has highlighted the need for teaching programs ...
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