This paper delves into the effects that strategic representations have on firm performance. It does so in four ways. First, it describes different types of representations—internal, external, and distributed—and it points to their pervasiveness in strategy. Second, it presents a framework to...

Purpose – In a constantly turbulent industry environment, companies seeking to survive or even maintain a competitive edge should be able to adapt their capabilities to respond to opportunities and challenges wherever and whenever they arise. This study proposes a research model based on...

This study investigates how companies adjusted their investments in key strategic resources -- i.e., their workforce, capital expenditures, R&D, and CSR -- in response to the sharp increase in the cost of credit (the "credit crunch") during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. We compare companies...

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. Different measures of competitive pressure in the product...

Companies with a distinct competitive strategy are attractive targets for free riding of intellectual property (IP) as copying their products either provides high margins (differentiation) or opens large markets (cost leadership). However, a clever combination of a competitive strategy with a...

Innovation is crucial for the success of enterprises and entrepreneurial activity. For the purposes of the study entrepreneurship represents organizational behaviour and entrepreneurial orientation. It is a collection of distinct practices, processes and decision-making methods entrepreneurs use...

Institutions and organizations are increasingly using the digital media to communicate with stakeholders on a day-to-day basis and during crises situations. Therefore, this chapter presents a bibliographic analysis on digital corporate communication technologies. The grounded theory’s...

Different forms of innovation management are associated with specific institutional contexts. Christensen et al (2001) argued that because firms in the United States have the capability to nurture disruptive technologies, they have been highly successful. Whitley (2002) argued that because of...

This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...

This paper introduces and describes the invention-insight sample space and uses it to describe the creative process of discovering invention insights — the essential combinations of elements of knowledge to envision the basic working configurations of inventions, the working ideas for new...