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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms

Timothy B. Folta, Constance E. Helfat and Samina Karim

This paper introduces the volume on Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, which is devoted to exploring a relatively new justification for how multi-business firms…

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This paper introduces the volume on Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, which is devoted to exploring a relatively new justification for how multi-business firms create value – having flexibility to internally redistribute non-financial resources across their businesses. We clarify how a theory around resource flexibility differs from other theories of how multi-business firms create value. We then synthesize the collection of papers in this volume and describe how they contribute to this line of inquiry. Finally, we offer our own views on opportunities for elaboration of this theory.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035002
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

Keywords

  • Inter-temporal economies of scope
  • resource redeployment
  • corporate strategy
  • multi-business firms
  • corporate advantage
  • corporate flexibility

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Resource Redeployment in Business Ecosystems

Douglas P. Hannah, Robert P. Bremner and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

This paper addresses resource redeployment in ecosystems. Prior research examines the value of resource redeployment across product markets in multi-business firms. In…

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This paper addresses resource redeployment in ecosystems. Prior research examines the value of resource redeployment across product markets in multi-business firms. In contrast, resource redeployment across ecosystems is an important corporate strategy employed by both single- and multi-business ecosystem firms that has received little attention. To address this gap, we present a case study of resource redeployment by an entrepreneurial firm in the US residential solar industry. We propose that the value creation mechanisms (i.e., improving capabilities, bottleneck relief) are fundamentally different when resources are redeployed in ecosystems. We identify “consumption-side” interdependence of components and “production-side” resource relatedness as playing critical roles in both types of value creation and propose conditions under which resource redeployment is most valuable. Overall, we contribute insights into the literatures on resource redeployment and strategy in business ecosystems.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035003
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

Keywords

  • Redeployment
  • ecosystems
  • bottlenecks
  • capabilities
  • case study
  • solar

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Resource Characteristics and Redeployment Strategies: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis

Jaideep Anand, Hyunseob Kim and Shaohua Lu

Firms pursue a number of redeployment strategies in order to achieve growth and create value for their stakeholders. While the majority of previous research focuses on how…

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Firms pursue a number of redeployment strategies in order to achieve growth and create value for their stakeholders. While the majority of previous research focuses on how firms create synergic value by sharing resources across multiple business units, we lack a systematic analysis of the determinants of different redeployment strategies. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework that allows us to systematically investigate how intrinsic resource characteristics affect resource redeployment strategies. Our framework identifies four critical characteristics of resources, that is, fungibility, scale-free nature, decomposability, and tradability. We develop a number of predictions that provide guidance for researchers to identify the optimal resource redeployment strategy appropriate for resources with a certain set of characteristics.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035007
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

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  • Resource redeployment strategy
  • fungibility
  • scale-free resources
  • decomposability
  • tradability
  • evolutionary theory

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Publication date: 1 January 2004

M&A STRATEGIES IN MATURE AND DECLINING INDUSTRIES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS

Jaideep Anand

Firms in mature or declining industries are faced with the challenge of redeploying their excess resources to new applications, and M&A strategies can be an important…

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Firms in mature or declining industries are faced with the challenge of redeploying their excess resources to new applications, and M&A strategies can be an important component of this effort. I consider two ways in which excess resources are applied to more attractive business opportunities through M&A, and I analyze these strategies through the lenses of industrial organization economics, resource-based view, evolutionary perspective and agency theory. In the redeployment strategy, firms seek attractive opportunities in related industries, using acquisitions to fill any resource deficiencies. In the consolidation strategy, firms combine with their competitors within the same industry. The resulting larger pool of resources provides greater opportunities for disposing off their under-utilized resources through the market, while enhancing their profitability. Either way, excess resources can find new applications, within the firm in the former strategy and through the market in the latter. I also discuss some implications for future research and practice.

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Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-361X(04)04007-4
ISBN: 978-0-76231-172-9

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

The Impact of Absorbed and Unabsorbed Slack on Firm Profitability: Implications for Resource Redeployment

Josep M. Argilés-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon and Mónica Martinez-Blasco

This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the impact of absorbed and unabsorbed slack, employing three different measures for each slack type, on firm profitability…

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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the impact of absorbed and unabsorbed slack, employing three different measures for each slack type, on firm profitability. We find that unabsorbed slack has a more favorable influence on future firm profitability than absorbed slack. While all the absorbed slack indicators have a significant negative influence on future profitability, the three unabsorbed slack indicators present positive, negative, and non-significant influences, respectively. The fewer constraints of unabsorbed slack on the redeployment to exploit new opportunities point to its comparative advantage over absorbed slack. We find evidence for the differential impact of absorbed versus unabsorbed slack on profitability in firms with lower levels of slack, which suggests firms prefer to withdraw resources from current business and redeploy them to develop new and more favorable business opportunities.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035012
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

Keywords

  • Absorbed slack
  • unabsorbed slack
  • resource redeployment
  • profitability
  • financial performance

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

What Goes on Beneath the Surface of Reconfiguration? The Impact of Redeployment via Activity Addition and Subtraction on Firm Scope and Turnover

Joel Blit, Christopher C. Liu and Will Mitchell

Strategy research has long understood that reconfiguration of the scope of the activities a firm engages in over time is critical to its long-run success, while…

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Strategy research has long understood that reconfiguration of the scope of the activities a firm engages in over time is critical to its long-run success, while under-emphasizing differences in redeployment strategy that underlie apparently similar scope and changes in scope. In this paper, we build on the idea that a firm’s number of activities (scope) and change in activities (turnover) arise from two fundamental rates of redeployment: the rate at which activities are added and the rate at which activities are subtracted. In net, the turnover rate reflects how actively a firm reconfigures its resource base by redeploying resources via addition and subtraction of activities. We develop a model that links addition and subtraction with the composition of a firm’s activities and then provide an empirical illustration using data from the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. As an example of one extension, the model can be generalized to incorporate elements of absorptive capacity. The analysis contributes to our understanding of how firms reconfigure their activities and provide managers with a clearer understanding of tools that guide redeployment of existing resources.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035008
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

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  • Firm activity scope
  • firm activity turnover
  • activity redeployment
  • absorptive capacity
  • firm patent activity

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Resource Redeployment through Exit and Entry: Threats of Substitution as Inducements

Gwendolyn K. Lee and Srikanth Parachuri

The purpose of this original research is to explore whether firms redeploy the resources that were withdrawn from existing businesses and use them to enter an emerging…

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The purpose of this original research is to explore whether firms redeploy the resources that were withdrawn from existing businesses and use them to enter an emerging product market. We studied 244 firms that have exited from at least one business and analyzed whether the firms entered the emerging product market as a new business. The inducements of resource redeployment vary with information cues in media rhetoric about emerging and shifting threats of substitution between the firm’s existing businesses and the new one. Through our hazard rate analysis of entries of firms that exited existing businesses, we examined the hypotheses that resource redeployment through exit and entry may be driven by an interaction of the volume of substitution rhetoric with the resource commitments that the firm had made in the domain of the new business as well as the market relatedness between the firm’s existing businesses and the new one. Our study makes conceptual and methodological contributions to the research on inducements, by theorizing how performance advantages of new over existing businesses vary with product evolution and by characterizing emerging and shifting threats of substitution with content analysis of media rhetoric. Our study suggests that prior work investigating corporate diversification provides an incomplete picture of the contribution of resource relatedness to firm value and firm decision-making.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035005
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

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  • Resource redeployment
  • entry
  • exit
  • substitution threats

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Linking Technologies to Applications – Insights from Online Markets for Technology

Gary Dushnitsky and Thomas Klueter

An important precondition for resource redeployment is that firms are aware of the commercial applications for which their resources can be used. We take an inventing-firm…

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An important precondition for resource redeployment is that firms are aware of the commercial applications for which their resources can be used. We take an inventing-firm perspective and ask: how many new commercial applications will a firm associate with an existing technological invention? We note that both technological and organizational characteristics determine the number of distinct applications firms consider feasible for a given technological invention. In particular, we suggest that inherently fungible technologies, that is, technologies that have a broad impact on other technological fields (highly general technologies), will be associated with a larger set of commercial applications. We also suggest that linking applications to an inherently general technology can be challenging when the technology is already embedded in organizational (commercial) routines. Proprietary data from an online marketplace allow us to investigate the applications firms consider feasible for their technological inventions. In line with extant work, a firm assigns a greater number of applications to more general technologies. As expected, however, this relationship is shaped by how the technology is embedded within the organization. Our results have implications for redeployment as firms may face challenges in the initial step of redeployment when fungible resources need to be linked to emerging market opportunities.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035010
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

Keywords

  • Corporate entrepreneurship
  • licensing
  • open innovation
  • patent marketplace
  • markets for technology
  • technology-application matches

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Resource Reconfiguration: Learning from Performance Feedback

Ari Dothan and Dovev Lavie

Resource reconfiguration enables firms to adapt in dynamic environments by supplementing, removing, recombining, or redeploying resources. Whereas prior research has…

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Resource reconfiguration enables firms to adapt in dynamic environments by supplementing, removing, recombining, or redeploying resources. Whereas prior research has underscored the merits of resource reconfiguration and the modes for implementing it, little is known about the antecedents of this practice. According to prior research, under given industry conditions, resource reconfiguration is prompted by a firm’s corporate strategy and by characteristics of its knowledge assets. We complement this research by identifying learning from performance feedback as a fundamental driver of resource reconfiguration. We claim that performance decline relative to aspiration motivates the firm’s investment in knowledge reconfiguration, and that this investment is reinforced by the munificence of complementary resources in its industry, although uncertainty about the availability of such resources limits that investment. Testing our conjectures with a sample of 248 electronics firms during the period 1993–2001, we reveal a clear distinction between exploitative reconfiguration, which combines existing knowledge elements, and exploratory reconfiguration, which incorporates new knowledge elements. We demonstrate that performance decline relative to aspiration motivates a shift from exploitative reconfiguration to exploratory reconfiguration. Moreover, munificence of complementary resources mitigates the tradeoff between exploratory and exploitative reconfigurations, whereas uncertainty weakens the motivation to engage in both types of reconfiguration, despite the performance gap. Nevertheless, codeployment, which extends the deployment of knowledge assets to additional domains, is more susceptible to uncertainty than redeployment, which withdraws those assets from their original domain and reallocates them to new domains. Our study contributes to emerging research on resource reconfiguration, extends the literature on learning from performance feedback, and advances research on balancing exploration and exploitation.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035011
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

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  • Resource reconfiguration
  • resource redeployment
  • learning
  • performance feedback
  • exploration
  • exploitation

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Publication date: 31 August 2016

Product Turnover: Simultaneous Product Market Entry and Exit

Douglas J. Miller and Hsiao-shan Yang

Resource redeployment may occur when a firm exits from one line of business and enters another. We suggest that when multiproduct firms identify opportunities in new…

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Resource redeployment may occur when a firm exits from one line of business and enters another. We suggest that when multiproduct firms identify opportunities in new high-growth markets, their entry will occur alongside exit from low-growth markets when the firm is resource-constrained. For our sample of over 47,000 high-tech US firms in CorpTech from 1993 to 2004, 5% of the firm-years include simultaneous entry and exit at the product market level, which we term “product turnover.” Firms are more likely to engage in product turnover when there is a larger spread between the highest and lowest growth rates for the product markets in the firm’s portfolio. This effect is strongest for small- and medium-sized firms, which tend to be privately held. Therefore, future research on resource redeployment might find fruitful ground in samples of mid-size firms.

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035004
ISBN: 978-1-78635-508-9

Keywords

  • Market entry and exit
  • resource redeployment
  • multiproduct firms
  • product turnover

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