Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 10 Issue 2

Examining the association between government-sponsored product ratings and firm political participation

David E. Cavazos, Matthew Rutherford

The purpose of this paper is to apply firm aspiration theory to explore how firms respond to government product ratings.

Project management control within a multicultural setting

André A. de Waal, Freke A. de Boer

There is a growing debate and research stream on the influence of national culture on the type and nature of management control systems (MCSs) used by organizations in the…

Choice of an authoritative style when implementing a survival urgency-based strategic change: A middle manager’s perspective

Maheshkumar Joshi, Sanjeev Jha

Extant research suggests that managing strategic change has become a key managerial function and this duty encompasses changes in organizational product-market boundaries and…

Executive compensation: An examination of the influence of TMT compensation on risk-adjusted performance

William Kline, Masaaki Kotabe, Robert D. Hamilton, Steven Balsam

The purpose of this paper is to examine how executive pay schemes influence managerial efficiency, which the authors measure as the risk-adjusted firm performance.

Alliance portfolios and firm performance: the moderating role of firms’ strategic positioning

Aleksey Martynov

The purpose of this paper is to fill the theoretical void in the discussion of effects of alliance portfolios on firm performance by studying the moderating role of a firm’s…

Environmental management rivalry and firm performance

Anupam Kumar, David E. Cantor, Curtis M. Grimm, Christian Hofer

The purpose of this paper is to build and test theory regarding how rivalry in environmental management (EM) affects a focal firm’s environmental image and financial performance.

Factors influencing the integration of external evaluations in the open innovation process: A qualitative study in micro-firms in the creative industries

Julia Mueller, Celine Abecassis-Moedas

Many industries are increasingly affected by or even invite the participation of external stakeholders in the innovation process. The concepts of open innovation use the ideas of…