Journal of Strategy and Management
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Strategy
Motives for corporate philanthropy and charitable causes supported
Dane K. Peterson, Cathryn Van Landuyt, Courtney PhamThis paper examines how the inferred motives for corporate philanthropy relate to the types of charitable causes supported.
Influence of middle management on dynamic capabilities
Marina de Almeida Cruz, Victor Silva Corrêa, Daniela Martins Diniz, Felipe Mendes BoriniThe dynamic capabilities (DC) literature focuses primarily on top managers. Although recent studies have drawn attention to middle management's (MM) relevance, these…
The threat of bankruptcy and financing strategy in learning-intensive industries
Palash Deb, Vipin SreekumarThe authors investigate whether firms in learning-intensive industries are more prone to bankruptcy and how this shapes a firm's financing choices.
Strategy and what it means to be strategic: redefining strategic, operational, and tactical decisions
Azaddin Salem KhalifaThe confusion over what counts as “strategic” is widely acknowledged to be a problem for both research and practice. The paper aims to develop a robust definition of…
Understanding the dynamic relationships between CSR and CSIR
Feibo Shao, Audrey J. Murrell, Xiaoping Zhao, Ke Zhang, Timothy A. HartCorporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) co-exist within many firms. Yet, without understanding how CSR and CSIR are related, our…
Big data analytics and competitive advantage: the strategic role of firm-specific knowledge
Rajiv Dahiya, Son Le, John Kirk Ring, Kevin WatsonWhile advances in big data analytics (BDA) provide valuable business insights and immense business value, many firms find it difficult to gain advantage from their BDA…
Managers' sexually-oriented behavior and firm performance: linking media reports to stock market reactions and legal risk
Amy Nicole Baker, David King, Michael Nalick, Melissa Tempio, Vishal K. Gupta, Charles A. PierceThe goal of this study is to examine the association between managers' sexually-oriented behavior in publicly traded firms and subsequent stock market reactions. Both…
Strategic orientations, firm performance and the moderating effect of absorptive capacity
Manuel-Alejandro Ibarra-Cisneros, María del Rosario Demuner-Flores, Felipe Hernández-PerlinesThe purpose of this article is to study the moderating effect of absorptive capacity, defined as the set of organizational routines and processes through which companies…
The effects of status on the performance of portfolio diversification strategies
Hyekyung Yu, Tohyun KimThis paper investigates how a firm's status moderates the performance of its investment portfolio diversification strategy. We combine the investment diversification…
Assessing dynamic capabilities of incumbents in the face of unprecedented industry transformation: the case of the automotive industry
Fabian HoeftThe purpose of this paper is to develop a holistic approach to the assessment of dynamic capabilities (DCs). Holistic refers to incorporating all DCs of an organisation…
Nexus between risk disclosure and corporate reputation: a longitudinal approach
Nischay Arora, Ridhima Saggar, Balwinder SinghThe study aims to explore the unexplored domain by examining the impact of risk disclosure on corporate reputation in an emerging economy, like India, characterized by…
Is there a decision to make, boss? From understanding SME growth to managing employees' learning preferences
Steven Tam, David E. GrayThis study examines employees' learning preferences in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at different life-cycle stages.
Level and speed of acquisition integration and their effects on technological performance
Liang-Hung Lin, Yu-Ling HoThis study concerns two aspects of the integration process critical for the success of acquisitions: (1) levels of human integration and task integration and (2) speeds of…
Performance outcome of entrepreneurial behavior of SMEs in a developing economy: the role of international mindset
Ahmed Agyapong, Patience Dakora Maaledidong, Henry Kofi MensahDespite the burgeoning stream of research on the relationship between entrepreneurial behavior (EB) and performance, the linkage between entrepreneurial behaviour…
Resource transformation in the reconstitution of broken interorganizational relationships
León PobleteAdopting aspects of the resource-based perspective and interorganizational relational dynamics, this paper examines the notion of resource transformation in the…
Understanding managerial ambidexterity: a people–situation interaction approach
Ruifang Wang, Patrick GibbonsIt is increasingly recognised that managers play a central role in organisational ambidexterity. While some scholars have recently begun to explain the nature and…
Strategic agility and the effects of firm age and environmental turbulence
Jonathan H. ReedThe purpose of this empirical paper is to operationalize the Doz and Kosonen (2010) model of strategic agility, consisting of three dimensions and 15 subfactors and to…
Locked-in resources, coopetitive relationship stability and innovation
Rida Elias, Bassam FarahThis conceptual paper uses the resource-based theory (RBT) of the firm to argue that for competitors to improve their innovation through a cooperative relationship …
Dynamic capabilities and competitive advantages as mediator variables between market orientation and business performance
Ricardo Jorge Correia, José G. Dias, Mário Sérgio TeixeiraThis paper aims to explore a new causal link between market orientation and business performance by introducing dynamic capabilities as a mediator of the relationship…
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- Dr. Nicholas O'Regan
- Professor Abby Ghobadian