Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 10 Issue 4

Time and space in business: dynamic geographic concentration and localized industry life cycle

Liang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to theorize how the industry life cycle unfolds differently across places and how economic agglomeration varies over time.

Board political experience and firm internationalization strategy: A resource dependence perspective

Earl Yarbrough Jr, Michael Abebe, Hazel Dadanlar

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the link between board of director composition and firm performance. Specifically, the paper argues that board political…

Three strikes and you are out?: The impact of the frequency of downsizing on financial health and market valuation

Michael Carriger

Much has been written in both the management and finance literatures about the impact of downsizing on the financial health and market valuation of companies. However…

Strategizing in a focused context: managerial discretion in the Arab world

Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef, Ioannis Christodoulou

The purpose of this paper is to broaden the national-level construct of managerial discretion and to investigate the effect of cultural practices on executive discretion.

Tacit knowledge transfer in coopetition: An empirical investigation of the role of business group (BG) affiliation

Amit Kumar, Swarup Kumar Dutta

The purpose of this paper is to understand how firms affiliated to business groups (BGs) are able to improve their innovation capability (IC) when engaged in coopetition…

Family firms and corporate social responsibility: exploring “concerns”

Nai Hua Lamb, Frank Butler, Philip Roundy

Scholars are devoting increasing attention to understanding a specific type of strategic initiative in family firms: corporate social responsibility (CSR). Prior studies have…

Combining practice and theory to assess strategic thinking

Ellen F. Goldman, Karen S. Schlumpf, Andrea Richards Scott

The purpose of this paper is to describe the process used to develop and test the Individual Behavioral Assessment Tool for Strategic Thinking.