The book is motivated by the lack of a core strategic theory of what firms do and their performance in the market and aims at developing a reasonably comprehensive theory of the firm for strategic management. In this regard, the book provides answers to the four major questions that a theory of the firm for strategy should address: what is a firm, why does it exist, what determines its size and...

This study investigates the effect of IT-business strategic alignment on organizational agility by considering the effects of IT flexibility and IT capability on strategic alignment. Also this study investigates the moderating role of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between strategic alignment and organizational agility. This research is an applied research based on purpose and de...

This paper analyzes “In‡uence Peddling”with interaction between human capital transfer and collusion-building aspects in a model, in which each government o¢ cial regulates multiple …rms simultaneously. We show that (i) there exists an “optimal” division rule for collusion between a sequence of “quali…ed”regulators and a …rm; (ii) as the regulators increasingly bene…t from the collusion, they s...

Strategic Information System Planning (SISP) has been a major concern for business and information systems (IS) managers since the 1980s. Past research has proposed several methodologies, processes and models which facilitate development of SISP in organisations. This paper employs a systematic literature review approach and studies 84 papers (which remained after search in nine scientific data...

To obtain the development and change of teachers’ strategic knowledge in teachers’ online community of practice (TOCP) in China, content analysis, video case analysis and statistical analysis methods were adopted to study 45 teachers (15 novice teachers, 15 key teachers, and 15 experienced teachers) from three participating schools during three phases. The development and change of different te...

Abstract. Long term optimal investment problems are studied in a factor model with matrix valued state variables. Explicit parameter restrictions are obtained under which, for an isoelastic investor, the finite horizon value function and optimal strategy converge to their long-run counterparts as the investment horizon approaches infinity. This convergence also yields portfolio turnpikes for ge...

The authors present qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a viable method for strategic management research. Specifically, they demonstrate its ability to examine the potential interdependence and complexity among effects through a study of how industry, corporate, and business-unit attributes combine in determining business-unit performance. They present in an accessible manner the consecu...

At the beginning, each point is treated as an individual cluster. In each step, two clusters with the largest similarity are merged into a new one. The backward strategy is applied after the generation of a new cluster. In the example, in steps (b)–(f), no boundary document is found in the generated cluster and reallocation does not occur. In step (g), two documents located in the middle are me...