Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 14 Issue 2

Strategic agility and the effects of firm age and environmental turbulence

Jonathan H. Reed

The 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 test its…

Locked-in resources, coopetitive relationship stability and innovation

Rida Elias, Bassam Farah

This conceptual paper uses the resource-based theory (RBT) of the firm to argue that for competitors to improve their innovation through a cooperative relationship – coopetitive…

Understanding managerial ambidexterity: a people–situation interaction approach

Ruifang Wang, Patrick Gibbons

It is increasingly recognised that managers play a central role in organisational ambidexterity. While some scholars have recently begun to explain the nature and antecedents of…

Dynamic capabilities and competitive advantages as mediator variables between market orientation and business performance

Ricardo Jorge Correia, José G. Dias, Mário Sérgio Teixeira

This paper aims to explore a new causal link between market orientation and business performance by introducing dynamic capabilities as a mediator of the relationship between…

Resource transformation in the reconstitution of broken interorganizational relationships

León Poblete

Adopting aspects of the resource-based perspective and interorganizational relational dynamics, this paper examines the notion of resource transformation in the reconstitution of…

Performance outcome of entrepreneurial behavior of SMEs in a developing economy: the role of international mindset

Ahmed Agyapong, Patience Dakora Maaledidong, Henry Kofi Mensah

Despite the burgeoning stream of research on the relationship between entrepreneurial behavior (EB) and performance, the linkage between entrepreneurial behaviour, international…

The effects of status on the performance of portfolio diversification strategies

Hyekyung Yu, Tohyun Kim

This paper investigates how a firm's status moderates the performance of its investment portfolio diversification strategy. We combine the investment diversification literature…

Assessing dynamic capabilities of incumbents in the face of unprecedented industry transformation: the case of the automotive industry

Fabian Hoeft

The 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 relevant…