I examine the effects of firms cluster membership on their alliance network structure, and how firms absorptive capacity moderates the relationship between alliance network structure and innovation. Little is known regarding the inter-relationship between cluster membership, network structure...

How does a leading firm sustain its competence-based advantage in a competitive landscape against threats of imitation and substitution? In high-velocity competitive markets, an inherent tension arises when firms wish to prolong the value of their technological competencies, while rivals seek to...

In this study I investigate how a firm's corporate strategic action portfolios, defined as bundles of key corporate strategic actions, relate to deregulatory and technological changes, and to firm performance. I hypothesize that frequency and variety of a firm's corporate strategic action...

Organizational social practices (e.g., corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship practices), as well as their costs and the benefits companies accrue from undertaking them, have been widely described and analyzed in the business and society literature. However, the debate over...

This dissertation investigated the use of various techniques in modeling non-linear change in the context of latent growth modeling. A simulation study was conducted utilizing four between subjects factors: sample size (50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 300 and 500), slope variance (.15, .45 and .75),...

One of the sources of inaccuracy in parameter estimates of multilevel models is omitted variable bias, caused by the omission of an important predictor. The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of six estimation procedures in estimating the fixed effects when a level-2...

This study evaluated the robustness of DIF detection for multidimensional polytomous items using two different estimation methods, MG-CFA and MGRM-DFIT. A simulation study across 960 study conditions was performed. The purpose of this study was to establish the Type-I error rate and Power of DIF...

This study draws upon organizational learning in the management domain and analogical reasoning in the psychology arena to examine the antecedents of acquisition success in a study of 655 firms from 54 industries that conducted 2622 acquisitions from 1991 through 2005. Where previous work in...

One of the more visible and often controversial effects of globalization is the rising trend in global sourcing, commonly referred to as outsourcing, offshoring or offshore outsourcing. Today, many organizations experience the necessity of growing globally in order to remain profitable and...

This dissertation is motivated by an overarching research question: How do firms leverage external resources residing in their ego network (portfolio of alliances) and their clusters in order to innovate in a sustained manner? Research suggests that firms often struggle and falter in their...