One of the main limitations of the models most frequently used in strategic management studies to explain firm performance is their implicit determinism. We aim to improve explanation by including managerial discretion as an element that mediates between market structure and firm behavior. By...

The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource-based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products. The analysis shows how the application of...

In 2000 ten foreign banks owned the 12 largest US subsidiaries of foreign banks, which account for over 92% of the assets of all subsidiaries. The parent banks were large and tended to be from English-speaking countries. The novel result is that the parent was often the largest bank in its home...

Sogenannte intangible Ressourcen eines Unternehmens sind f�r die Wettbewerbsf�higkeit eines Unternehmens von gro�er Bedeutung. Weithin bekannt ist auch die Tatsache, dass Wissen in Unternehmen in vielf�ltiger Weise vorliegt und unbedingt genutzt werden sollte, um den...

Le lien formation / productivité fait l’objet d’une littérature empirique émergente principalement basée sur des études quantitatives. Notre analyse, en revanche, s’appuie sur des méthodes de recueil et d’analyse qualitatives. Elle met notamment en évidence l’intervention des...

This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts because specificity is generally considered as the most important transaction cost attribute. It also integrates external uncertainty in the model. External uncertainty is a...

The eclectic paradigm has been one of the leading frameworks for explaining multinational activity over the past two decades. Yet recent trends in international business pose a challenge to the explanatory power of the paradigm. Strategic management theory, with its focus on performance...

This paper develops a model of information-acquisition decisions by firms that are competing in a "strategic factor market" (Barney 1986) to purchase a scarce resource whose value is unknown and differs across firms. The model builds on the argument that more accurate expectations about the...