Competitive Strategy

High-Performer Mobility to Entrepreneurship and Parent-Firm Performance

Video abstract for the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal article “High-Performer Mobility to Entrepreneurship and Parent-Firm Performance” authored by Pernille Gjerløv-Juel and Michael S. Dahl. Click here to read the full article:…

A universe of stories: Mobilising narrative practises during transformative change

How can storytelling be used to influence acceptance of an ongoing organizational transformation? In this article, we try to answer this question by examining how, over three decades, Italian company…

When your problem becomes my problem

What happens to my operations when a competitor’s operations are disrupted? While research has examined how a disrupted firm can recover, little attention has been paid to competitors, except their…

Toward a dynamic notion of value creation and appropriation in firms

Most managers and the business press regard “value creation” as the increase in shareholder wealth represented by a rise in corporate profit or stock price. A broader conception of value…

Quantum leaps or baby steps?

While the pursuit of novel technological ideas is the driving force of sustained competitive advantage, managers often reject novel ideas in favor of more familiar ones. How then can managers…

Value creation in innovation ecosystems

Why do some new technologies emerge and quickly supplant incumbent technologies while others take years or decades to take off? We explore this question by presenting a framework that considers…

Karna, Richter, & Riesenkampff – Capabilities & the environment

Within the capabilities‐based view of the firm, there is debate about the relative importance of ordinary and dynamic capabilities for firm performance and about the extent to which their performance…

Bennett, Seamans, & Zhu – Cannibalization & option values in secondary markets

We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects the value appropriated by firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary-market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary…

Uriel Stettner & Dovev Lavie on ambidexterity

Research streams on competition and cooperation are central to the field of strategic management but have evolved independently. The emerging literature on coopetition has brought attention to the phenomenon of…

Shane Greenstein on the Decline of Encyclopedia Britannica

An established and leading firm, such as Encyclopædia Britannica, would seem to have enormous advantages over its competitors in a new market. Why would a successful firm come to have…