The discipline of strategic management has the goal to better understand why companiessucceed based on a holistic, overarching perspective. However, until now the strategicmanagement literature has not provided a conceptually unifying framework that explicitlyintegrates the different dimensions...

Music majors, who have been suffering from dwindling revenues in their core business, areplacing extraordinary hopes on the new market of Over-The-Air(OTA)-Downloads.However, until now there has been no broad academic discussion about this market. Inparticular, two central questions have not yet...

Managers sometimes sacrifice profits only to improve their relative competitive standing, a behaviour that is known as “competitive irrationality.” Previous research has generated a wealth of insight into the general foundations of this often dysfunctional type of managerial decision-making....