Maurizio Zollo

TL;DR: It is suggested that orientations toward employees, customers, suppliers, and local communities will affect long‐term acquisition performance both directly and through its interactions with process characteristics, such as preacquisition relatedness and postacquisition integration.

TL;DR: In this article, small-world analysis techniques applied to the ownership networks among Italian enterprises in 1990 and 2000 were applied to analyze the structural characteristics of these networks, showing signs of significant fragmentation of the overall network, but at the same time of stability in the structure of its main component, as measured by smallworld coefficients, while the role of the key players in the network seems to remain relatively stable despite the major turbulence at the institutional level as well as in the structural properties of the complete network.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of individual actors in shaping organizational change processes and propose a model of firm evolution that includes cognitive, motivational and identity-based antecedents to behavior, as well as key dimensions of intentionality and consciousness of change.

TL;DR: Compared with managers, entrepreneurs showed higher decision-making efficiency, and a stronger activation in regions of frontopolar cortex previously associated with explorative choice, and activity across a network of regions previously linked to explore/exploit tradeoffs explained individual differences in choice efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the frequency of governance adaptations and explore some of the factors affecting parent firms' interventions in their collaborative agreements, and identify specific governance changes firms make in strategic alliances.