Cooperative Strategies IG

How to Achieve Benefits from Diversity in International Alliances?

International alliances face a dilemma. Cross-national differences offer valuable complementarities, but they can also spark a negative spiral of dysfunctional conflict. Our study shows that task discourse is an important…

Susan Perkins, Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung – Innocents Abroad

We examine international joint ventures in the telecommunications industry in Brazil, where pyramidal groups are ubiquitous. We explain how corporate governance differences between pyramidal groups versus widely held freestanding firms…

Gambardella, Panico, and Valentini on “Strategic Incentives to Human Capital”

Motivating human capital in knowledge-intensive activities is a serious managerial challenge because it is difficult to link rewards to actions or performance. Firms instead might motivate knowledge workers by offering…

The firm as an architect of polycentric governance

Emerging markets typically present additional obstacles for business operations because they lack the necessary underlying institutional infrastructure such as access to capital and labor markets. We introduce a new way…

Formal contracts and relational governance as substitutes or complements

Relational exchange arrangements supported by trust are commonly viewed as substitutes for complex contracts in interorganizational exchanges. Many argue that formal contracts actually undermine trust and thereby encourage the opportunistic…

From proprietary to collective governance

As firms consider transitioning proprietary products to more open platforms to grow market share and relevance, we suggest that managers consider the concerns of external participants when designing a system…

When the weak are mighty: A two‐sided matching approach to alliance performance

Video abstract for the Strategic Management Journal article “When the weak are mighty: A two‐sided matching approach to alliance performance” by Darcy K. Fudge Kamal, Florence Honoré, and Cristina Nistor.…

Engineering Serendipity

Video abstract for the Strategic Management Journal article “Engineering serendipity: When does knowledge sharing lead to knowledge production?” by Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, & Karim…

Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

Are Activist Investors the Villains?

by Daniel Keum Are activist investors the villains? In the movie “Pretty Woman (1990),” Richard Gere plays a corporate raider who takes over a struggling shipping company. The climax of…

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