Henk W. Volberda

TL;DR: A longitudinal study of a large corporation's transition to a new business model in the face of a major transformation in the ICT industry brought about by Cloud computing reveals strategy formation to be a collective experimental learning process revolving around a number of alternative strategic intentions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the gap between the proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity, and provide a brief overview of the various conceptual attributes of this construct, like the definition, antecedents and consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multidimensional operational measure of exploration orientation is developed and its internal consistency established, and empirical results indicate that more environmental dynamism, a stronger organization mission, a prospector orientation and larger slack resources are associated with a greater exploration orientation.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated analysis of these search processes at both firm and industry levels of analysis shows how their interaction makes industries and firms co-evolve over time, through competitive dynamics among new entrants and incumbent firms and manifests itself in the simultaneous emergence of new business models and new organizational forms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between cost, resource and entrepreneurial drivers of an offshoring strategy and the size of a firm's Offshoring Strategy, and found that small firms mostly offshore competence exploring activities, whereas large firms relocate competence exploiting activities, just like these firms have a relatively stronger preference for nearshoring.