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Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2011"


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TL;DR: In this paper, a multidimensional measure of absorptive capacity (ACAP) is presented, based on relevant prior literature, a series of pre-tests, and two large survey-based studies of German companies.

566 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between buyer-supplier partnership quality and supply chain performance in the presence of supply and demand side risks and environmental uncertainty, and proposed a positive relationship between partnership quality, which is strengthened by high demand and supply-side risks, but weakened by high environmental uncertainty.

216 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider intentional and unintentional co-operation between firms and the public sector within the service industries by using Pyha-Luosto tourism destination in Lapland, Finland, as a context of analysis.

151 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems over twenty years and show that a firm that outsources exploration through an Acquisition and Development (A&D) strategy of start-ups and exploitation specialization can be more innovative and competitive than an ambidextrous organization.

118 citations


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TL;DR: It is shown that the willingness to share knowledge is rooted in different relational models and that people only share knowledge when they share similar relational models, and effective knowledge sharing takes place when incentive systems and knowledge management systems are appropriated to the relational model in use.

107 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the phenomenon of intuitive decision making in the banking and finance sector through the use of in-depth semi-structured interviews with experienced executives in a FTSE-100 bank.

85 citations



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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated 9 CoPs (created between 1997 and 2002) in 7 major European and US multinational corporations and uncovered a 5-phase process of integration and learning activities.

79 citations


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TL;DR: The most common reason for undertaking CSR was "it's just the right thing to do" as discussed by the authors, indicating relational and moral motives that go beyond pure instrumentalism, although compliance to regulation is also a factor.

75 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a model of service employees' intention to quit their job is proposed, which includes a new construct, perceived customer unfriendliness, which is linked with several employee-related variables.

73 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a detailed understanding of the issues involved in creating outsourced shared services arrangements, highlighting the importance of strong governance to drive standardisation and performance improvement, and relationship building both internally with the staffaffected by the changes and externally with vendors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of four types of variables on patent quality, using the number of claims as a proxy for quality: (a) the presence of highly central inventors; (b) star inventors, (c) repeated collaboration; (d) international collaboration.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the job satisfaction of Greek retail workers employed in the secondary labour market (non-managerial, non-professional occupations) by tracing the different predictors of job satisfaction in such an idiosyncratic and demanding work environment.

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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative analysis of the video and audio transcripts revealed that film directors engage in two types of intuitive decision-making, based on whether the decision was driven by expertise or personal emotional experience.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine theory and empirical evidence to develop and test three related claims about how ties strength and structural equivalence affect interorganizational performance similarity, and they show that tie strength will affect aspects of performance that are more likely to be influenced by processes activated by the direct contact between network partners.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the legitimacy and cross-legitimation strategies of two companies that entered the market of functional food in Italy when it was emerging from the convergence of the food and the pharmaceutical industries.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative and quantitative data collected from the top executives of Indian ITES industry suggest that perceptual evaluation of three intangible firm assets (employee, organization, and management-related) and recent firm performance positively impact relationship quality.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of interpersonal relationships on service performance through a two-year period field work with two outcome-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) contracts, collecting abundant qualitative data using in-depth interviews and observation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the utilization of managerial networking relationships with social and political entities to create social capital in family-owned and non-family firms, and compared the impact of the value of the social capital derived from the networking relationships on performance between family owned and nonfamily firms.

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Giuseppe Soda1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical research on automotive industry that investigates the effects on innovation performance of the position that firms occupy in the network of alliances and the hypothesis that innovation is generated not only from the resources that a company is able to develop internally, but also through access to resources and capabilities owned by the external companies and organizations that the firm itself is tied to through alliances and cooperation agreements.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theory of status-seeking behavior that involves the exchange of status for valued resources, using original data on the network of social and professional ties among 72 hotel managers clustered in an Italian hotel district.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the management population is not homogeneous, but rather segmented based on contextual and individual characteristics, and propose hypotheses to explain this segmentation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on five areas where network research has introduced new angles and renewed the understanding of how organizations should tackle management issues and suggest directions for future research, with the same objective of placing the emphasis on strengthening the contribution of the approach to management practices.

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TL;DR: In this article, a collaborative initiative aiming to set standards for low-carbon practices in the Swedish food sector is described. But while more critical arguments serve to validate the initiative, the resulting compromise does not question the canon of market discourse, including consumer sovereignty and the legitimacy of established economic interests.

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TL;DR: In this article, a meta-synthesis of seminal voices on the relevance gap, the abyss between management science and management practice, and on remedies proposed is presented, and the notion of pragmatic adequacy is introduced to explain how design-driven action research approaches can reduce the importance gap, facilitate change and enhance creativity.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the growth of offshoring administrative and technical tasks by German and US firms and consider the relevant theories and related factors that influence the decision to initiate and pursue off-shoring.

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TL;DR: In this article, the role played by network structure in the genesis of new combinations or the process of selecting ideas was highlighted, and different types of ties or network structures are relied upon to reap different kinds of benefits.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of monitoring and punishment threats on both employee deviance and procedural justice were investigated. And they found that punishment mainly, but also monitoring to a large extent, work better when used in proper doses, i.e., those producing greater perceptions of procedural justice.

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TL;DR: This work analyzes the strategy process, specifically the strategy/execution debate, from the perspective of hierarchy, and contrasts the hierarchical mode – where top management dominates by separating strategy/formulation and execution – with three alternative modes where the power circuits of strategy extend beyond the managerial elite and are shared by several strategic agents.