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Multiple futures of strategy synthesis: Shifting boundaries, dynamic capabilities and strategy configurations
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The Impact of Corporate Venturing on a Firm’s Competence Modes
Full text linkIn this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organization’s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic options of a firm’s competence modes (Sanchez, 2004a; Sanchez and Heene, 2002) will be assessed by distinguishing two fundamentally different dimensions of corporate venturing, technology and product (Block & MacMillan, 1993). We argue that the level of product and factor market dynamism mediates the effect of corporate venturing on a firm’s competence modes. Corporate ventures that significantly increase the level of product or factor market dynamics will lead to an increased flexibility in all five competence modes. These ventures will have a direct effect on the lower-order competence modes and an indirect, lagged effect on higher-order competence modes through feedback loops. The developed framework and the propositions contribute to managing the ability of a firm to change its coordination-, resource and operating flexibility in order to sustain value creation.flexibility;corporate venturing;competence-based management;product and factor market dynamism
Prevention Focus as an Overlooked Benefactor: An Investigation into Its Role as an Antecedent of Management Team Accountability
Full text linkDespite management scholars’ recent interest in regulatory focus theory, existing research has predominantly explored the beneficial effects of a promotion focus. Conversely, research—especially empirical research—on the benefits of a prevention focus within organizational settings remains relatively scarce. In this study, the authors utilized survey data from 145 Dutch companies to examine the positive effects of general managers’ prevention focus on the accountability of their management teams. This chapter advances our understanding by demonstrating that both dimensions of regulatory focus offer distinct benefits, highlighting the need for a more balanced approach to theory development in this area of study.<br/
Coevolutionary Competence in the Realm of Corporate Longevity: How Long-lived Firms Strategically Renew Themselves
Full text linkUnderstanding the phenomena of corporate longevity and self-renewing organizations has become an important topic in recent management literature. However, the majority of the research contributions focus on internal determinants of longevity and self-renewal. Using a co-evolutionary framework, the purpose of this paper is to address the dynamic interaction between organizations and environments in the realm of sustained strategic renewal, i.e. corporate longevity. To this end, we will focus on the competence of long-lived firms to coevolve due to the joint effect of managerial intentionality and environmental selection pressures. Building on coevolutionary framework, we develop a conceptual framework that highlights an organization’s coevolutionary competence. Two longitudinal case studies are presented illustrating the arguments.strategic renewal;corporate longevity;competence-based management;adaptive open systems;coevolutionary competence
The Influence of Top Management Team’s Corporate Governance Orientation on Strategic Renewal Trajectories
Full text linkUsing the upper echelons perspective together with corporate governance and strategic renewal literature, this paper investigates how top managers’ corporate governance orientation influences a firm’s strategic renewal trajectories over time. Through both a qualitative analysis (1907-2004) and a quantitative analysis (1959-2004), we investigate this under-researched question within the context of a large incumbent firm: Royal Dutch Shell plc. Our results indicate that top managers having an Anglo-Saxon corporate governance orientation are more likely to pursue exploitative and external-growth strategic renewal trajectories, while those having a Rhine corporate governance orientation are more likely to pursue exploratory and internal-growth strategic renewal trajectories. We also found a positive moderating effect of the proportion of shareholders from the Anglo-Saxon countries on exploitative and external-growth strategic renewal trajectories. Our findings indicate that top managers’ corporate governance orientation can be an important antecedent of strategic renewal and of organisational ambidexterity, both of which influence corporate longevity.corporate governance;strategic renewal;exploitation and exploration;Royal Dutch Shell;top management team;upper echelons perspective
IQ, EQ, and Multiple Intelligences:A Brief Review of the Discussion
Full text linkResearch on intelligence has a long history and is one of the most established streams of research within the literature on individual differences. During this time, various conceptualizations and types of intelligence have been proposed, along with different instruments to measure them. In this chapter, we will briefly review intelligence research, with particular attention to general intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), and multiple intelligences. Moreover, we will discuss organizational research that considers the role of different intelligences, especially with respect to job performance. We will also consider ethical issues in intelligence research and propose future research directions. Overall, this chapter considers the role of intelligence in organizational contexts
Public Affairs Information Service bulletin.
No full textAnnual vols. contain an author index.Annual cumulations have spine title: Annual cumulated bulletin.Annual vols. cover period Oct. 1914/Sept. 1915-Oct. 1984/Sept. 1985.Mode of access: Internet.Vols. 1-5 published by H.W. Wilson Company; v. 6-71 published by Public Affairs Information Service.Indexed in: Public Affairs Information Service. Bulletin. Cumulative subject index, 1915/74-, and: Public Affairs Information Service. Bulletin. Cumulative author index,
Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive
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142226.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)H.W. Volberda Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive Oxford:Oxford University Press ,1999 019829090
Correspondence from Richard Miles to Vernon Jordan on behalf of H.W. Isaac, April 1966
No full textCorrespondence from Richard Miles to Vernon Jordan prefacing H.W. Isaac's request of funds to take advantage of a potential Black voting majority
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