Given the sizeable savings, many disputes are resolved via arbitration. Numerous studies have considered the strategic incentives of various forms of arbitration, most notably Final Offer Arbitration (FOA). While previous work focused exclusively on optimal offers, in reality disputants make a series of perhaps interrelated choices. This paper considers FOA disputants making an additional inves...

Recent studies in organization theory and business strategy argue that the structure of a firm's network of inter-organizational relationships can both help and harm the firm's performance. We examine how three aspects of network structure affect supplier survival in the U.S. automobile industry, focusing on relationship duration, supplier autonomy, and customer status. We examine the impact of...

The strategy may be represented by a strategic map (SM).According to Kaplan and Norton, SM are built up to obtain constant communication of the objec-tives to all employees. They have a simple layout, are general and consistent, and help achieve better implementation of strategies so that employees tolerate changes that they initially resisted and distrusted in their companies.This paper sugges...

The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenfield investment Vs Cross border M&A) and the target selection (Acquisition of high-productivity firm or low-productivity one) for a foreign firm, and to delineate the relationship between foreign firm’s incentive and host government’s intention from an Industrial Organization (IO) perspective. It is ...

This chapter focuses mainly on corporate growth strategies and growth modes. The main question is how to create and develop a sustainable competitive advantage for the whole company. The traditional strategic management approach is to consider two different levels of analysis: business and corporate strategy. In fact, both of them represent today the basis for obtaining sustained competitive ad...

This study examines variation in top executives’ environmental perceptions within firms and within industries. More specifically, we investigate how industry and organizational membership affect top executives’ perceptions of five environmental attributes. Results indicate that significant homogeneity of perceptions exists within firms and also within industries. Approximately 40 percent of the...

The article reviews the concept of 'strategic alignment' and presents the critique by Ciborra in SJIS (Vol. 9, No. 1) entitled "De profundis? Deconstructing the concept of strategic alignment". We present a design approach that suggests how designers, conducting design projects in a specific organization, can take care of and ensure that the design of IT is appropriately aligned with the organi...

IntroductIon New public management and the more recent concept of new public governance have become the dominant management doctrines in the public sector. Public organizations have become increasingly network-like units with various governance relations with actors from the public, business, and voluntary sectors. Their organization is based more on networks than on traditional hierarchies, ac...

Top-down total quality management (TQM) programs often fail to create deep and sustained change in organizations. They become a fad soon replaced by another fad. Failure to institutionalize TQM can be attributed to a gap between top management’s rhetoric about their intentions for TQM and the reality of implementation in various subunits of the organization. The gap varies from subunit to subun...

Entry by spinoffs from incumbent firms is investigated for the laser industry. A model in which spinoffs exploit knowledge from their parents is constructed to explain the market conditions conducive to spinoffs, the types of firms that spawn spinoffs, and the relationship of spinoffs to their parents. The model is tested using detailed data on all laser entrants from the start of the industry ...