Texas Christian University

About: Texas Christian University is a education organization based out in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3245 authors who have published 8258 publications receiving 282216 citations. The organization is also known as: TCU & Texas Christian University, TCU.

Capabilities as a mediator linking resources and the international performance of entrepreneurial firms in an emerging economy

Abstract: This study investigates an under-researched topic: the relationships between capabilities, resources, and international performance among entrepreneurial firms in an emerging economy. We combine the resource-based view of the firm and the capability-building perspective of rent creation to shed light on the crucial role of firm-specific capabilities that transform key resources into performance outcomes. Employing a large sample of Chinese entrepreneurial firms, our investigation demonstrates that while the resources of institutional capital and managerial ties are important in the internationalization effort, their effects on international performance are channeled through each firm's adaptive capability. This adaptive capability is the firm's ability to coordinate, recombine, and allocate resources to meet the different requirements of foreign markets. Specifically, our research is able to demonstrate support for the mediating role of capabilities in the relationship between resources and international performance. The implications of these findings for theoretical development and future research are discussed.

The Milky Way's circular velocity curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data

Abstract: We measure the Milky Way's rotation curve over the Galactocentric range 4 kpc R 14 kpc from the first year of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. We model the line-of-sight velocities of 3365 stars in 14 fields with b = 0? between 30? ? l ? 210? out to distances of 10 kpc using an axisymmetric kinematical model that includes a correction for the asymmetric drift of the warm tracer population (? R 35 km s?1). We determine the local value of the circular velocity to be Vc (R 0) = 218 ? 6 km s?1 and find that the rotation curve is approximately flat with a local derivative between ?3.0 km s?1 kpc?1 and 0.4 km s?1 kpc?1. We also measure the Sun's position and velocity in the Galactocentric rest frame, finding the distance to the Galactic center to be 8 kpc 99 % confidence. We find an offset between the Sun's rotational velocity and the local circular velocity of 26 ? 3 km s?1, which is larger than the locally measured solar motion of 12 km s?1. This larger offset reconciles our value for Vc with recent claims that Vc 240 km s?1. Combining our results with other data, we find that the Milky Way's dark-halo mass within the virial radius is ~8 ? 1011 M ?.