The benefits of geographic sales diversification: How exporting facilitates capital investmentStrategic Management Journal - Tập 32 Số 10 - Trang 1046-1060 - 2011
J. Myles Shaver
AbstractMany strategic investments require firms to make upfront outlays to
generate profits at a later date. When firms have limited access to external
capital, they have to rely on internally generated funds for these investments.
In this case, their strategic investments are constrained by cash flow. I
predict that by geographically diversifying sales (i.e., exporting), firms can
relax this con... hiện toàn bộ
Designing alliance networks: the influence of network position, environmental change, and strategy on firm performanceStrategic Management Journal - Tập 29 Số 6 - Trang 639-661 - 2008
Balaji R. Koka, John E. Prescott
AbstractAlliance networks are strategic decisions involving trade‐offs between
two stylized structural design choices: prominent and entrepreneurial. Prominent
alliance networks emphasize benefits arising out of multiple access and
affiliation to other prominent firms in the network. An entrepreneurial
position, on the other hand, emphasizes brokerage and diversity benefits arising
out of access t... hiện toàn bộ
Technological acquisitions and the innovation performance of acquiring firms: a longitudinal studyStrategic Management Journal - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 197-220 - 2001
Gautam Ahuja, Riitta Katila
AbstractThis paper examines the impact of acquisitions on the subsequent
innovation performance of acquiring firms in the chemicals industry. We
distinguish between technological acquisitions, acquisitions in which technology
is a component of the acquired firm's assets, and nontechnological acquisitions:
acquisitions that do not involve a technological component. We develop a
framework relating a... hiện toàn bộ
Does it pay to be different? An analysis of the relationship between corporate social and financial performanceStrategic Management Journal - Tập 29 Số 12 - Trang 1325-1343 - 2008
Stephen Brammer, Andrew Millington
AbstractThis study explores the relationship between corporate social
performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) within the context
of a specific component of CSP: corporate charitable giving. A model of the
determinants of the extent of corporate charitable giving is estimated and used
as the basis of a classification that groups firms according to the difference
between their ac... hiện toàn bộ
Corporate reputation and sustained superior financial performanceStrategic Management Journal - Tập 23 Số 12 - Trang 1077-1093 - 2002
Peter W. Roberts, Grahame R. Dowling
AbstractGood corporate reputations are critical because of their potential for
value creation, but also because their intangible character makes replication by
competing firms considerably more difficult. Existing empirical research
confirms that there is a positive relationship between reputation and financial
performance. This paper complements these findings by showing that firms with
relativel... hiện toàn bộ