We investigate the empirical usefulness of a new measure of the degree of competition in a market, proposed by Boone (2000). This measure is based on the reduction in profits that firms experience as a result of cost inefficiencies. We compare this with measurescommonly used by policy makers and...

While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice, process or structure that significantly alters the way...

This essay provides some reflections about the idea and ideal of scholarship in Management and Organization Studies and celebrates the life and works of Chris Argyris as a scholar. Unlike most of the accounts and tributes to his work, this essay seeks to draw attention not only to the practice...

If learning is an integral part of living; if working life demands learning as a condition of survival; if learning is an essential human condition, why is it that we have such difficulty engaging with the phenomenon? This paper engages with this question and explores the complex...

There are still few explanations of the micro detail through which top managers influence employee commitment to multiple strategic goals. This paper argues that through their language, top managers can construct a context for commitment to multiple strategic goals. We therefore propose a...

Strategy workshops – typically 2-3 day events involving senior managers – represent a common and frequent, yet under-researched, organisational practice relating to strategy development and therefore provide a natural extension of mainstream strategy process research. In this paper we seek...

Despite their pervasiveness and significance in everyday organisational life, meetings have received comparatively little serious academic attention as organisational phenomena. This paper argues that studying meetings as strategizing episodes can add to our understanding of the social dynamics...

We examine whether discretionary government grants influence thelocation of new plants. Grants have a small effect in attracting plants to specificgeographic areas, but their effectiveness increases with agglomeration externalities,measured by the number of other plants in that location in the...

Extending Teece's landmark 1986 article, we consider how innovators benefit from value appropriation and creation. We elaborate on value appropriation, first by pointing out the importance of “industry architectures”, i.e. sector-wide templates that circumscribe the division of labor; and...

Many papers have documented wide variations in productivity even in narrowly defined industries. Some have argued that this primarily reflects measurement problems due to, for example, comparing across different products. Others argue this reflects persistent differences in performance due, for...