Monitoring Self-reinforcing Mechanisms (original) (raw)

The Effects of Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms on Firm Performance

2003

Abstract: This study empirically investigates the influence of the market-bound (ie, interaction and network effects) on the firm-bound (ie, scale and learning effects) self-reinforcing mechanisms, and their combined effect on product and organizational performance. The findings from a sample of 257 manufacturing firms reveal that interaction effects have a positive effect on network effects.

Are networks important in order to secure a firm's strategy? – A literature review

2017

Desde las investigaciones de Granovetter (1973) acerca de los lazos débiles y fuertes en una red de relaciones, se ha escrito numerosa literatura sobre el potencial de las redes para obtener más recursos, reducir la incertidumbre del entorno y, finalmente, asegurar las estrategias en las firmas. En este artículo presentamos la estrategia de una empresa como una plataforma desde donde construir con variadas herramientas y recursos clave, y también como una plataforma de desarrollo en tiempo real, ya que está constantemente influenciada por las redes. Las redes tienen poder y sus beneficios son el resultado de una adecuada comprensión del tema por parte de las empresas. Por ejemplo, la propia capacidad para aprender de ellas y saber movilizarlas cuando es necesario. Las redes no solo influyen en la cantidad y calidad de los recursos que una empresa pueda obtener, también son capaces de influir en el entorno a fin de facilitar la movilización de estos recursos en el momento adecuado.

The Price for Market Embeddedness is Declining Adaptive Capabilities: Model, Measurement and Illustration

British Journal of Management

This paper deals with a central challenge in organization and management research: to predict the evolution of an organization's adaptive capability. We address both theoretical and methodological gaps in existing research. First, focusing on the largely overlooked external constraints on adaptive capability, we model how ties between an organization and its market audiences curtail adaptive capability as market tenure increases. Second, we address the methodological weakness of conceptualizing the content of organizational change in prior research with a novel approach. Our distance‐based approach sees adaptation as change in an organization's position in a cognitive market space. With position defined, one can measure the speed of movement in that space. An analysis of the UK motorcycle market serves as an empirical illustration for our theoretical prediction and proposed measure.

Increasing Replication for Knowledge Accumulation in Strategy Research

Journal of Management, 2003

Extensive replication is essential to ensure the reliability and validity of research and for rigorous theory development, particularly for pre-paradigmatic social sciences such as strategy. Yet, relatively few strategy replication studies have been published. We build on recent calls for greater replication by proposing three sets of measures to facilitate knowledge accumulation in strategy via increased replication. We first propose