Management Decision: Volume 58 Issue 1

A tale of two paths: Performance heterogeneity driven by resource employments in the pharmaceutical industry

Fen-may Liou

Based on a strategic group concept, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of resource employments on persistent performance in the pharmaceutical industry.

The effect of inter- and intra-regional geographic diversification strategies on firm performance in China

Hueiting Tsai, Shengce Ren, Andreas B. Eisingerich

The purpose of this paper is to theorize and empirically examine the effects of intra- and inter-regional geographic diversification on firm performance in China. Furthermore, it…

Do more structural holes lead to more risk propagation in R&D networks?

Yue Song, Naiding Yang, Yanlu Zhang, Jingbei Wang

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore how the number of structural holes influences the possibility of risk propagation in R&D networks; and second, to…

Network resource meets organizational agility: Creating an idiosyncratic competitive advantage for SMEs

Hsian-Ming Liu, Hsin-Feng Yang

The purpose of this paper is to propose that a firm could exploit the ties of interfirm network to access external network resources (NR) to assist its sensing and responding…

Strategy, capabilities, and business group performance: The endogenous role of industry diversification

Shan-Huei Wang, Chung-Jen Chen, Andy Ruey-Shan Guo, Ya-Hui Lin

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among choice of industry diversification, capabilities and business group performance, as well as to point out the…

The growth of knowledge through the resource-based view

Hiroko Nagano

The resource-based view (RBV) has not previously been conceptualized as a theoretical framework encompassing metaphysical and empirical perspectives. The purpose of this paper is…

E-mail viral marketing: modeling the determinants of creation of “viral infection”

Rishi Raj Sharma, Balpreet Kaur

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors influencing the opening and forwarding of commercial e-mails received directly from companies to further promote products via…

Analysis or intuition? Reframing the decision-making styles debate in technological settings

Ludovico Bullini Orlandi, Paul Pierce

The debate over intuitive vs analytical decision-making styles began almost 40 years ago and had yet to deliver definite answers. The debate – however – has led to divergent…

A novel insurance system for associated loans: the realization of reducing bankruptcy cost

Yaojie Zhang, Chao Liang, Daxiang Jin

The assets of bankrupt firms are usually sold to unsuitable buyers at an extremely discounted price. Aiming to reduce the bankruptcy cost, the purpose of this paper is to propose…

Does capital structure mediate the link between CEO characteristics and firm performance?

Muhammad Akram Naseem, Jun Lin, Ramiz ur Rehman, Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad, Rizwan Ali

The purpose of this paper is to empirically capture the impact of a chief executive officer’s (CEO) personal and organizational characteristics on firm performance in the context…

How organizational structure and strategic alignment influence new product success

Yung-Chang Hsiao, Ming-Ho Wu

The purpose of this paper is to review and re-examine the role of the organization-level determinants from the perspectives of competence-based views.