Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Management in 1999"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors join network theories of firm interaction with the recent resource-based perspective in strategic management, which suggests a more satisfactory underpinning for the analysis of competitive advantage within the network approach.

TL;DR: In 1970, the largest commercial bank in Sweden, Handelsbanken, was in a major crisis and the bank was in conflict with the authorities as discussed by the authors, and the executive director left the bank, as did several of the top officials.

TL;DR: The existence of a change-centred leadership style as hypothesized by Ekvall and Arvonen has been scrutinized in a sample consisting of four organizations, described to reflect each of the four ideal cultures proposed by Quinn and his colleagues as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple classification of switching costs which distinguishes between "take-down" costs and "set-up" costs is proposed. And the authors discuss the possible effects of such costs on the choice and timing of foreign operation methods.

TL;DR: This study examines in detail how the toolmakers, Sandvik Bahco have designed and used their management control system to implement their chosen differentiation strategy and describes and analyse the control system at the management and the operational levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the experiences of a company that learned to become more customer oriented by using a customer study to create a situation of "unfreeze" and provide directive information that was used constructively in a participative search.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the complex nature of organizational flexibility and question the myth of flexibility as exclusively a top management interpretation of constant adaptiveness to environmental change by exploring the various rigidities involved in a seemingly adaptive organization.

TL;DR: The authors showed that knowledge of behavioral theories or "soft" economics does stimulate cooperative behavior, but that it has no impact on opportunism, and the role of uncertainty is included by introducing two different information regimes, indicating that uncertainty regarding the opponent's future behavior facilitates cooperation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question of how communicative power is exercised in an organizational setting which is characterized according to its members as a "feminine" culture type.

TL;DR: This study explores the mismatch between existing learning systems and the members' needs for learning in a large international organization by analysing the mismatch developing in a classical organization, and proposes an instrumental model, which combines structural and cognitive factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the following relations between organization types and leadership roles are hypothesized: expert organizations and producers, bureaucratic organizations and administrators, group organizations and integrators, and task organizations and entrepreneurs: striving for results and achieving goals is a role requirement that appears in all types of organization, whereas integrating behavior was required as a secondary requirement, again in all four types of organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply business accounting practices to traditional forest accounting and propose principles for profit and loss accounts and balance sheets for non-industrial private forest owners (NIPF owners).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide new insights into the evolving episodes and bonds in investor relationships, including attraction, commitment, and commitment, which is a future-oriented bond that incorporates the expectations of each party concerning the potential rewards of the exchange relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, a failing German-Russian joint venture established to exploit new business opportunities, where transfer of technology was perceived crucial to success, was observed that the technology transfer as such was successful, even though the transferring firm sustained monetary loss and worsened its competitive situation.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between major product diversity (diversification) and the economic performance of 20 large Swedish industrial corporations during the time period 1971-1991 have been studied and shown that sales and employment growth (both extensive variables) and diversity are positively related.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the operations of technologically focused SMEs over the past 20 years and find that these SMEs have responded to the business conditions and competition around them, but have also changed how they view their own internal planning and operation needs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of Dynal, a fast growing biotech joint venture, was conducted to look at how resources were turned into value creation, and hence, to identify strategic resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the stock market's reaction to news about the Norwegian company VIP Scandinavia over a period of about a year and a half and found that the market relied to a great extent upon financial reporting as a source of valuation information.