Fast and rigorous: Configurational determinants of strategic decision-making balance

A longstanding debate in the strategic decision-making literature has focused on whether top management teams (TMTs) can effectively balance speed and comprehensiveness when making important decisions. In our research, we build on early insights and pivot from considering whether TMTs can engage indecision-making that balances these tensions to focus instead on when certain types of TMTs are able to achieve such balance. We employ a novel configurational analytical approach and a theoretical framework built from role theory to examine the CEO-TMT interface in a new way. In so doing, we are able to identify specific CEO-TMT constellations that support decision-making that is both fast and rigorous. Using a unique primary dataset and an abductive, configurational approach grounded in fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we identify six specific leader-team configurations that each facilitate decision processes characterized by rigorous intra-team debate, meaningful reconciliation of divergent ideas, and fast decision speed (which we describe as strategic decision-making balance). The range of CEO-TMT configurations that emerge from our analyses contribute new theory and findings for the strategic decision-making and interface literatures more broadly, as well as the specific research streams on executive gender, humility, and TMT structure.     

The wisdom and madness of crowds: How information networks and board cognition help or hinder firm performance across the business cycle

We know little of why a minority of firms pursue counter-cyclical strategies and consequently outperform competitors during recessions. Based on the theory of institutional isomorphism, we hypothesize that these firms avoid the mimetic and normative pressures that promote strategic convergence during uncertainty. We demonstrate these effects at the board-level in a sample of 1,615 U.S. firms. Mimetic processes are evident, with firms' connectedness in board interlock networks attenuating profitability and decreasing firm value during recessions—a reversal of the positive effects during expansions. Normative pressures arise from homogeneity in directors’ educational and professional experience, with greater consequences for long-term performance. Overall, recessionary performance is improved when firms occupy relatively isolated positions in informational networks and appoint directors from a range of backgrounds.     

基于战略地图和BSC的企业整合型战略控制系统研究

本文首先回顾战略控制的理论演进,界定企业整合型战略控制系统的基本目标与功能.紧着,本文提出基于平衡记分卡的企业战略诊断控制系统,旨在控制战略的实施;并且提出基于战略地图的企业战略交互控制系统,旨在把握战略的不确定性从而控制战略的内容.最后,本文融合上述两类系统组成一个企业整合型战略控制系统,为快速、高效地实施战略提供最全面的保障.     

基于BSC和EVA整合战略管理的应用研究

战略管理是企业成功的关键所在。目前企业战略管理面临的一个最大问题是精心制定的战略无法得到有效的实施。本文引入平衡记分卡与经济增加值两个互补性很强的管理工具,运用层次分析法将其整合为公司全面的战略管理框架及其评价体系,以推动企业战略的成功实施。     

基于战略杠杆原理的广西工业企业创新

战略杠杆能够实现“以少搏多”、“以弱胜强”,能为广西工业企业的快速成长与发展提供有效的途径。广西工业企业急需以全面系统的战略杠杆理论作为指导。我们在对战略杠杆原理及其与核心能力的关系进行系统分析的基础上,结合广西工业企业发展现状,阐述广西工业企业实施战略杠杆的现状及其得失原因,探讨以核心能力为基础的广西工业企业创新模型的对策,据此提出有益的建议。     

中国家用空调行业市场竞争与合作趋势的策略集团分析

产品的市场竞争力是企业策略优势的体现,直接观察企业所处的策略集团可以预测企业未来的竞争趋势。应用因子分析方法获得了三个反映中国空调企业策略优势的公共因子;根据所得出的三个公共因子,应用聚类分析方法,将中国主要空调生产企业划分为四个策略集团;按照策略集团理论,分析了中国主要空调生产企业未来的竞争与合作发展趋势,同时也对国外空调企业在中国的发展趋势进行了探讨。     

信任、关系、控制与研发联盟绩效——基于中国制药产业的研究

本文以我国制药产业研究开发联盟为研究对象,研究了关系治理(包括信息共享、持续性预期、关系深化)、过程控制、信任对联盟绩效的影响。研究发现,持续性预期、信息共享有助于增进信任,进而提高联盟绩效;技术的不确定性越高,信任对联盟绩效的促进作用越显著;但过程控制则会降低信任与联盟绩效的正相关。     

民营企业和华人企业的战略联盟构建

随着中国-东盟自由贸易区的构建,中国民营企业与东南亚华人企业形成战略联盟也越来越为世人瞩目。本文在分析了中国民营企业战略态势和东南亚华人企业战略态势的基础上,根据中国民营企业与东南亚华人企业战略联盟的形成从理论上进行了探讨。     

The effects of pre-IPO corporate activity on newly-public firms' growth

We investigate firms' pre-IPO corporate activity. We find that firms involved in extraordinary – i.e., beyond momentum – amounts of acquisitions, JVs, and alliances in the year leading up to their IPOs (1) are more likely to engage in post-IPO corporate activity; and (2) enter into their first post-IPO transaction twice as fast as other firms. Our results indicate that signaling via extraordinary corporate activity can have a significant effect on entrepreneurial firms’ growth. The implications are discussed.     

Learning,signaling, and convincing: The role of experimentation in the business modeling process

This study examines experimentation in the business modeling process, unpacking three different roles of experimentation: learning, signaling, and convincing. Learning is an inherent role of experimentation, as managers typically experiment to engage with the environment and to obtain knowledge. This study uncovers another set of roles, which have a symbolic nature. These roles show that experimentation is not just a learning process, but also a strategic legitimation process, aimed at enacting the environment. Experimentation serves the purpose of signaling to potential customers and other stakeholders, and of convincing them to embrace the business model. Furthermore, this study shows that experimentation takes two forms—purposeful interactions and experimental projects—and that these forms can support the different roles of experimentation.