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Full-Text Articles in Business
Competitive Rationales: Beneath The Surface Of Competitive Behavior, Goce Andrevski, Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Walter Ferrier
Competitive Rationales: Beneath The Surface Of Competitive Behavior, Goce Andrevski, Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Walter Ferrier
Management Faculty Publications
Competitive dynamics research has focused on studying whether rivals are able and likely to carry out competitive actions, typically by examining indirect reasons such as characteristics of the actions themselves, the firms involved, or the competitive context. We explore why rivals initiate a specific competitive action at a particular time and situation. Drawing from the philosophy of action literature, we introduce the concept of competitive rationales to examine the primary reasons that cause tactical actions. Given the rapid exchanges characterizing tactical competitive dynamics, we conducted an inductive, multicase study to explore the reasons behind over 800 discrete tactical decisions carried …
Unpacking Burt’S Constraint Measure, Martin G. Everett, Stephen P. Borgatti
Unpacking Burt’S Constraint Measure, Martin G. Everett, Stephen P. Borgatti
Management Faculty Publications
Burt (1992) proposed two principal measures of structural holes, effective size and constraint. However, the formulas describing the measures are somewhat opaque and have led to a certain amount of confusion. Borgatti (1997) showed that, for binary data, the effective size formula could be written very simply as degree (ego network size) minus average degree of alters within the ego network. The present paper presents an analogous reformulation of the constraint measure. We also derive minima and maxima for constraint, showing that, for small ego networks, constraint can be larger than one, and for larger ego networks, constraint cannot get …
Measuring Knowledge And Experience In Two Mode Temporal Networks, Martin G. Everett, Chiara Broccatelli, Stephen P. Borgatti, Johan Koskinen
Measuring Knowledge And Experience In Two Mode Temporal Networks, Martin G. Everett, Chiara Broccatelli, Stephen P. Borgatti, Johan Koskinen
Management Faculty Publications
Two mode social network data consisting of actors attending events is a common type of social network data. For these kinds of data it is also common to have additional information about the timing or sequence of the events. We call data of this type two-mode temporal data. We explore the idea that actors attending events gain information from the event in two ways. Firstly the event itself may provide information or training; secondly, as co-attendees interact, they may pass on skills or information they have gleaned from other events. We propose a method of measuring these gains and demonstrate …
Techniques: Dichotomizing A Network, Stephen P. Borgatti, Eric Quintane
Techniques: Dichotomizing A Network, Stephen P. Borgatti, Eric Quintane
Management Faculty Publications
This techniques guide provides a brief answer to the question: How to choose a dichotomization threshold? We propose a two step approach to selecting a dichotomization threshold. We illustrate the approaches using two datasets and provide instructions on how to perform these approaches in R and UCINET.
Open-Ended Interview Questions And Saturation, Susan C. Weller, Ben Vickers, H. Russell Bernard, Alyssa M. Blackburn, Stephen Borgatti, Clarence C. Gravlee, Jeffrey C. Johnson
Open-Ended Interview Questions And Saturation, Susan C. Weller, Ben Vickers, H. Russell Bernard, Alyssa M. Blackburn, Stephen Borgatti, Clarence C. Gravlee, Jeffrey C. Johnson
Management Faculty Publications
Sample size determination for open-ended questions or qualitative interviews relies primarily on custom and finding the point where little new information is obtained (thematic saturation). Here, we propose and test a refined definition of saturation as obtaining the most salient items in a set of qualitative interviews (where items can be material things or concepts, depending on the topic of study) rather than attempting to obtain all the items. Salient items have higher prevalence and are more culturally important. To do this, we explore saturation, salience, sample size, and domain size in 28 sets of interviews in which respondents …
Brokering Trust To Enhance Leadership: A Self-Monitoring Approach To Leadership Emergence, Martin Kilduff, Ajay Mehra, Dennis A. Gioia, Stephen Borgatti
Brokering Trust To Enhance Leadership: A Self-Monitoring Approach To Leadership Emergence, Martin Kilduff, Ajay Mehra, Dennis A. Gioia, Stephen Borgatti
Management Faculty Publications
What kind of person is likely to emerge as an informal leader in the workplace? Experimental research shows that high self-monitors—who tend to adjust their attitudes and behaviors to the demands of different situations—emerge as informal leaders in temporary groups. By contrast, low self-monitors—who tend to be true to themselves in terms of consistency in attitudes and behaviors across different situations—are less likely to emerge as leaders. But this prior research does not address the criticism that the emergence of high self-monitors as leaders represents ephemeral impression management in the context of laboratory experiments. To address this issue, we collected …
Incumbent Decisions About Succession Transitions In Family Firms: A Conceptual Model, Britta Boyd, Isabel C. Botero, Tomasz A. Fediuk
Incumbent Decisions About Succession Transitions In Family Firms: A Conceptual Model, Britta Boyd, Isabel C. Botero, Tomasz A. Fediuk
Management Faculty Publications
In the family business literature, succession research has focused on the family member as they enter the leadership role or on the different issues that affect the succession process. Although researchers have acknowledged that succession in family businesses is “punctuated” by decision making events, less attention has been given to understanding how incumbents make decisions about ownership and management transitions. In an effort to continue to understand the succession process it is important to understand how incumbents make decisions about the type of transitions they intend to engage in (i.e., intra-family succession, out of family succession, or no succession). Building …