Restructuring Strategy: New Networks and Industry Challenges

Karen O. Cool (Editor), James E. Henderson (Editor), Rene Abate (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2601-4

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312 pages

February 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

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List of Contributors vii

About the Editors x

1 Restructuring Strategy 1
James Henderson, Karel Cool, and René Abate

Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15

2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry 17
Karel Cool and James Henderson

3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry 44
Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni

4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance 68
Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily

5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage 86
Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko

Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring 111

6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry 113
M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda

7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139
Moren Lévesque and Dean A. Shepherd

8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change 153
Neil Jones

9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth 175
Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen

Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices 205

10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice 207
Mark H. Hansen, Lee T. Perry, and C. Shane Reese

11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236
Johanna Mair

12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance? 251
Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold

13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process 268
Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein

Index 289