Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 7 Issue 3

Profitability of industries and firms over time

L. Jay Bourgeois III, Adam Ganz, Andrew Gonce, Keith Nedell

– The purpose of this paper is to further the knowledge of how industries perform, and sheds light on how the relative positions of industry change over time.

Understanding how the contextual variables influence political behaviour in strategic decision-making: A constructive replication

Said Elbanna, Ioannis C. Thanos, Vassilis M. Papadakis

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the knowledge of the antecedents of political behaviour. Whereas political behaviour in strategic decision-making (SDM) has received…

Healthcare strategic management and the resource based view

Bita Arbab Kash, Aaron Spaulding, Larry D. Gamm, Christopher E. Johnson

The purpose of this paper is to examine how two large health systems formulate and implement strategy with a specific focus on differences and similarities in the nature of…

Assessing performance measurement in RBV research

Scott L. Newbert

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate why greater attention to performance measurement is so essential to assessing the meaningfulness and usefulness of the knowledge gained…

Knowledge sufficiency: when institutional distance is insufficient

Willie Hopkins

For firms entering a foreign market for the first time, institutional distance can be thought of as being insufficient in the sense that knowledge gap issues associated with large…

Surviving or flourishing? Integrating business resilience and sustainability

Julie Winnard, Andy Adcroft, Jacquetta Lee, David Skipp

Businesses are always seeking resilient strategies so they can weather unpredictable competitive environments. One source of unpredictability is the unsustainability of commerce's…