Competitive Strategy

Fainshmidt, Smith and Judge

This study examines how national competitiveness, measured as productivity per worker, is fostered within an economy using a sample of 90 developed and developing economies. We build upon Porter’s popular…

Performance Persistence in the Presence of Higher Order Resources

If firms want to make more profit than their competitors for prolonged periods of time, they must have access to resources that competitors cannot effectively obtain, such as brands, patents,…

Do Investors Actually Value Sustainability?

The debate about how investors perceive corporate social responsibility (CSR) predates Milton Friedman’s famous statement that the only social responsibility of business is to increase profits. Although extensive research has…

Measuring value creation and appropriation in firms: The VCA model

Firms create value not only for shareholders, but also for other stakeholders, including employees, customers and suppliers. This article applies a method to quantify the “new” economic value created by…

Threat of platformowner entry and complementor responses: Evidence from the mobile app market

We examine one prevalent source of conflict: platform owners’ entry into complementary product spaces. We show that app developers on Google’s Android system are strategic and nimble actors. They respond…

Caroline Flammer – Product market competition & CSR

This study examines whether product market competition affects corporate social responsibility (CSR). To obtain exogenous variation in product market competition, I exploit a quasi-natural experiment provided by large import tariff…

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.…

Surrendering Control to Gain Advantage

Video abstract for the Strategic Management Journal article “Surrendering control to gain advantage: Reconciling openness and the resource‐based view of the firm” by Oliver Alexy, Joel West, Helge Klapper, and…

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…

Reflections on Hannah and Eisenhardt’s “How Firms Navigate Cooperation and Competition in Nascent Ecosystems”: Exploring Bottlenecks as a Central Concept in Innovation Ecosystem Theory

by David Clough Industries in an early phase of emergence are steeped with uncertainty. When this is combined with a complex, novel technology, managers face a deeply challenging environment in…

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