Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 2001"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the contributions to knowledge provided by the commentaries and articles contained in this issue and outline some additional areas of research wherein the resource-based view can be gainfully deployed.

TL;DR: The resource-based view can be positioned relative to at least three theoretical traditions: SCP-based theories of industry determinants of firm performance, neo-classical microeconomics, and evolutionary economics as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The impact of the resource-based view on the theoretical and empirical development of strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been explored in this article, where the fields of strategy and SHRM are beginning to converge around a number of issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between resource-based theory and entrepreneurship and develop insights that advance the boundaries of resource based theory and begin to address important questions in entrepreneurship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework that shows how market-based assets and capabilities are leveraged via market-facing or core business processes to deliver superior customer value and competitive advantages.

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationships among human resource practices, trust-in-management, and organizational commitment using a cross-level paradigm and on social exchange theory (i.e., perceived organizational support).

TL;DR: The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has become an influential theoretical perspective in recent international business research as discussed by the authors, and a broad, expanding, and cumulative knowledge base is emerging to connect IB and strategy research through the RBV.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of the data from empirical investigations of diversity in work groups was used to examine the impact of two types of diversity attributes, highly job-related and less jobrelated, on work group cohesion and performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a broad overview of how information technology impacts organizational characteristics and outcomes and discuss the role that IT plays in moderating the relationship between organizational characteristics including structure, size, learning, culture, and interorganizational relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the existence of complementary resources is a necessary but insufficient condition to achieve synergy, and that the resources must be effectively integrated and managed to realize the synergy.

TL;DR: In this article, Castanias and Helfat present an expanded classification of managerial resources, elaborate on how this classification relates to the fundamental resource-based characteristics of value, scarcity, inimitability and difficulty of substitution, and highlight the issue of appropriability of rents from managerial resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together the many different facets of corporate governance that have been examined in the extensive literature in both strategic management and finance and identify a sample of firms and examine CEO compensation, CEO tenure, board composition, leadership structure and ownership structure and their co...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore an important and under-recognized factor that may contribute to this age effect: a decline in self-confidence (or selfefficacy) for career-relevant learning and skill development with age.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a member's off-site communication, experience, perceived value of site management, content, and collectively held knowledge are positively associated with a members' e-based economic transactions within a virtual community.

TL;DR: The degree to which organizational climate mediates the relationship between human resource practices and customer satisfaction is investigated for 351 small businesses in the same industry as discussed by the authors, and the results indicated support for the hypothesized mediated relationship.

TL;DR: This paper explored the impact and nature of reputation as related to e-commerce by looking at the importance of a seller's reputational rating on the final bid price associated with eBay auctions.

TL;DR: The authors found that virtual workers' need for affiliation and the work-based social support they experience are countervailing forces associated with stronger organizational identification, and that perceived work based social support moderates the relationship between virtual workers need for affiliations and their strength of organizational identification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed hypotheses about the impact of perceived organizational support and two forms of work-family conflict on the psychological withdrawal of expatriates, and they also considered the exacerbating effects of commitment to either domain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the psychological climate for service friendliness correlated positively with employee displayed positive emotions, and whether such positive emotional displays influenced customer purchase decision and customer reactions concerning an organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited their identity-based view of sustainable advantage by questioning their premise that it is possible to gain a sustainable advantage based on any particular core competency, no matter how inimitable.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the link between economics and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and identifies several reasons that may have limited the explicit use of the RBV in economics, which include the problems of causal ambiguity, tautology and firm heterogeneity.

TL;DR: A theory of trust in virtual organizations that focuses on how trustworthiness can be communicated and trust built in this environment is proposed, and four specific propositions relating to these issues are proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship among a set of feedback seeking, social cognitive, and goal setting constructs and the work performance of one hundred thirty-six sales and customer-service representatives and found that self-efficacy and feedback seeking mediated the relationship between two individual differences (personal control perceptions and external feedback propensity) and both dimensions of work performance.

TL;DR: Choi et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that a well designed decision making process will have its most positive impact on company financial performance when it is carried out by a capable, motivated and dedicated workforce.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics and raise concerns about building a resourcebased theory of the firm that assumes away the problems of opportunistic behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined various determinants of local responsiveness as perceived by MNE subsidiary managers in a dynamic environment and proposed and validated three levels of factors affecting responsiveness, including environmental, structural, and organizational.

TL;DR: The authors explored factors associated with employee adjustment to virtual work and found that structural and relational factors are important predictors of adjustment and that the strength of the relationship is contingent upon individual differences.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of retained acquired company top executives on the eventual outcome of corporate acquisitions was investigated, and two views on how the organizational tenure of those executives could lead to the retention and divestiture of acquired companies were tested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined executive-level volunteers' multiple contributions of personal resources to a national health care advocacy organization and found that participants expected higher contributions when demands from volunteer roles do not exceed desired levels of contribution, interaction with other volunteers is higher, role investments are higher, and motives to join are consistent with organization's mission.

TL;DR: In this paper, the applicability of the strategic fit paradigm in China's centrally planned economy in transition was examined based on a random sample of Chinese electronics firms, and the results indicated that while environment-strategy coalignment is evident, coalignment only improves performance under certain environmental conditions.