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How Do Strategic Factor Markets Respond To Rivalry In The Product Market?, Olivier Chatain Dec 2014

How Do Strategic Factor Markets Respond To Rivalry In The Product Market?, Olivier Chatain

Olivier Chatain

This paper explores the interplay between product market, strategic factor market and resource development. More competition in the product market makes resource buyers bid higher for resources, as the value of trying to preempt the resources is higher. Holding other initial conditions constant, resources are developed more in industries with factor markets than in industries without. When buyers of resources cannot integrate more than one resource, developers choose to develop either at a low or high level, generating a type of heterogeneity that would not arise otherwise. Changes in the intensity of competition in the product market can have opposite …


Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak Nov 2014

Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak

Steven Slezak

No abstract provided.


Critical & Creative Thinking And Structured Analytic Methodologies:, James L. Harper Apr 2014

Critical & Creative Thinking And Structured Analytic Methodologies:, James L. Harper

James L Harper

No abstract provided.


Critical And Creative Thinking And Structured Analytic Methodologies: From “Think Flow” To “Work Flow”, James L. Harper Apr 2014

Critical And Creative Thinking And Structured Analytic Methodologies: From “Think Flow” To “Work Flow”, James L. Harper

James L Harper

Training prepares for the “known.” Education prepares us for the “unknown.” That unknown should spark greater analytic dialogue within the intelligence enterprise regarding what our analyst training and education baseline should encompass as well as address the training strategies necessary to drive the Army intelligence community to a more refined analytic point. Before delving into what those analytic swing mechanics consist of, let us first review the premium placed on our analysis today and the operational and intelligence processes in order to better understand how and when our analytics come into play.


Marketing Behavior Practices Towards Competitors For Application Of Marketing Behavior Matrix In Online Marketing- An Exploratory Study, Dipanjay Jayant Bhalerao Jan 2014

Marketing Behavior Practices Towards Competitors For Application Of Marketing Behavior Matrix In Online Marketing- An Exploratory Study, Dipanjay Jayant Bhalerao

Dipanjay Jayant Bhalerao

Behavioral aspect in marketing domain has been crucial majorly from consumer’s point of view. Since 1957, except the theory of MBEA (Marketing Behavior and Executive Action) by Prof. Wroe Alderson, the behavioral aspect of marketing was researched only in the consumer buying behavior arena. “All marketing activity is an aspect of the interaction among organized behavior systems related to each other in what may be described as an ecological network. Operating systems are a subclass of behavior systems, distinguished by inputs and outputs and the structuring of processes to achieve efficiency” (Wroe Alderson, 1957).As per this statement there is scope …


Acquiring Nanotechnology Capabilities: Role Of Mergers And Acquisitions, Jan Youtie, Luciano Kay Jan 2014

Acquiring Nanotechnology Capabilities: Role Of Mergers And Acquisitions, Jan Youtie, Luciano Kay

Jan Youtie

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are an important but unstudied aspect of nanotechnology’s evolution. This paper uses case review and bibliometric analysis to examine 20 M&As involving acquired firms in the nanotechnology domain. The guiding proposition is acquired firms provide complementarities to the acquiring firms. Key measures given consideration include the nature of the post-acquisition organization, whether the pre-acquisition geographic location is retained, the purpose of the acquisitions as indicated in news releases, and the extent of similarity in research publications and patents. Differences by the country of the acquiring firm and sub-industry are noted. Within the limitations of the case …


Strategic Factor Markets: Research Opportunities, Olivier Chatain Jan 2014

Strategic Factor Markets: Research Opportunities, Olivier Chatain

Olivier Chatain

Overview of strategic factor markets theory and opportunities for new theoretical and empirical research.


Timing Is Everything? An Empirical Analysis Of The Determinants Of Service Quality Provision, Olivier Chatain, Alon Eizenberg Jan 2014

Timing Is Everything? An Empirical Analysis Of The Determinants Of Service Quality Provision, Olivier Chatain, Alon Eizenberg

Olivier Chatain

We utilize a unique database from a large legal services provider to examine how service quality responds to the firm's available capacity, and to the nature of the firm-client relationship. We develop empirical measures of both the (internal) level of resources available to the firm at different points in time, and of the (external) value creation for customers. Our results indicate that service quality increases in the amount of the firm's available resources, suggesting that quality adjustment can be used as a means of tackling capacity constraints. We also find that service quality increases in the number of previous successful …


Booties, Bounties, Business Models: A Map To The Next Red Oceans, Steffen Roth Dr. Jan 2014

Booties, Bounties, Business Models: A Map To The Next Red Oceans, Steffen Roth Dr.

Dr. Steffen Roth

This quest is for pirate maps to blue oceans. The key problem involved is that blue oceans turn red whenever these maps make their way from pirates to mainstream entrepreneurs. Pirates therefore have an essential need for maps to the next blue oceans. In drawing on form theory, this article develops a map sheet, on which it appears that, throughout history, pirates navigated social borders. An analysis of the gaps in past and present maps of social differentiation then allows for the discovery of a largely uncharted quadrant of the blue ocean for entrepreneurship and entrepreneuring.


Integrated Market And Nonmarket Strategy: Political Knowledge And The Resource-Based View Of The Firm, Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Rick Vandenbergh Jan 2014

Integrated Market And Nonmarket Strategy: Political Knowledge And The Resource-Based View Of The Firm, Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Rick Vandenbergh

Jean-Philippe Bonardi

This paper contributes to the political strategy literature by focusing on the role of organizational knowledge about the political environment in explaining firm-level differences in political engagement. We combine insights from the learning literature and from the literature on political markets to develop a unique typology of political knowledge highlighting the degree of institution-specificity and the degree of firm-specificity of political knowledge. We use this typology to explore two questions. First, we consider governance mechanism choices: when firms want to develop one type of political knowledge or another, which governance mechanism should they consider? Second, we look at how the …