Cooperative Strategy

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…

Kim Boal on emerging from bankruptcy

Applications of signaling theory to predict reorganization outcomes are in their infancy. The dynamic integrative framework developed in this study is useful in identifying different types of signals and predicting…

The Evolution of Cooperation in the Face of Conflict

Firms in innovation-driven industries cooperate to develop interoperability standards and compatible technologies. Yet, cooperative firms may disagree about what constitutes fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms for licensing intellectual property. Thus,…

Navigating the Tenure Track

Release date: May 26, 2021 Speakers: Fabrice Lumineau (Professor in Strategic Management at HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong) Description: Aimed at PhD students and postdocs, this 1-hour…

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…

“Reshaping Demand Landscapes: How Firms Change Customer Preferences to Better Fit their Products.” A Conversation with the Author

by Esther Leibel Vinokurova’s analysis of the development of the MBS market is based on a massive archival database (366 industry documents and periodicals and 13 books from 1960 to…

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