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AbstractCompetitive market signals are conceptualized as announcements or previews of potential actions intended to convey or to gain information from competitors. This paper develops a set of propositions based on research in economics, social psychology, and marketing on the risk/reward trade‐off in signaling, the receiver's signal interpretation, and the receiver's reaction alternatives. The overall objective is to develop a research agenda toward a theory of competitive market signalin

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120602

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper tests the hypothesis that country‐specific advantage embedded in firms of a particular nationality is a motivation for international interfirm cooperation. A sample of domestic and international cooperative relationships formed by Japanese firms in the commercialization of biotechnology is used to identify factors which differentiate domestic from foreign partners. The findings support our hypothesis that country‐specific advantage is a significant variable in explaining differences between cooperative relationships with partners of different countries. The results of this study indicate that interfirm cooperation has implications for the international competitiveness of both firms and nations in high technology industr

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120603

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper reports an ethnographic study of the initiation of a strategic change effort in a large, public university. It develops a new framework for understanding the distinctive character of the beginning stages of strategic change by tracking the first year of the change through four phases (labeled as envisioning, signaling, re‐visioning, and energizing). This interpretive approach suggests that the CEO's primary role in instigating the strategic change process might best be understood in terms of the emergent concepts of ‘sensemaking’ and ‘sensegiving’. Relationships between these central concepts and other important theoretical domains are then drawn and implications for understanding strategic change initiation are

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120604

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMintzberg's (1990) critique of the ‘design school’ of strategic management is evaluated on two criteria: methodological soundness and factual veracity. The critique is found to be deficient on both criteria. Mintzberg's own proposal for the basic principles of strategic management is critiqued using the same criteria. It is found that the exposition is deficient methodologically and that Mintzberg's descriptive and prescriptive assertions are at variance with facts observable in the current practice of strategic management. The variance is found to be due to several factors: lack of coherence in Mintzberg's presentation; his use of a definition of strategy which is at variance with the current practice of management, his failure to differentiate between prescriptive and descriptive statements; and his failure to define the context for his prescriptions. Using recent empirical research results on strategic success behaviors, Mintzberg's model is placed in a limited but important context in which it is a valid prescription for successful strategic behav

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120605

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120606

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper explores the nature of competitive assets that are based on control of part of a market's infrastructure using a case study of the U.K. frozen food market. Following an argument due to Stigler, the thesis of the paper is that such assets are inherently transitory, and that positions of market leadership based on them tend to erode. This argument is consistent with the experiences of Birds Eye during the post‐War perio

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120607

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250120601

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY