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The theory of the growth of the firm
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The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that internal resources rather than the market environment should provide the foundation for a firm's strategy, based on an analysis of relationships among resources, capabilities, conpetitive advantage, and profitability.
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Corporate Ownership Around the World
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Developing a Knowledge Strategy
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The firm as a distributed knowledge system : A constructionist approach
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Entrepreneurship in multinational corporations : The characteristics of subsidiary initiatives
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The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that internal resources rather than the market environment should provide the foundation for a firm's strategy, based on an analysis of relationships among resources, capabilities, conpetitive advantage, and profitability.
Posted Content
Corporate Ownership Around the World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present data on ownership structures of large corporations in 27 wealthy economies, making an effort to identify ultimate controlling shareholders of these firms, and suggest that the principal agency problem in large corporations around the world is that of restricting expropriation of minority shareholders by the controlling shareholders.
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Developing a Knowledge Strategy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a framework for making that link and for assessing an organization's competitive position regarding its intellectual resources and capabilities and recommend that organizations perform a knowledge-based SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, comparing their knowledge to that of their competitors and to the knowledge required to execute their own strategy.
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The firm as a distributed knowledge system : A constructionist approach
TL;DR: Firms are distributed knowledge systems in a strong sense: they are decentered systems, iacking an overseeing 'mind'; the knowledge they need to draw upon is inherently indeterminate and continually emerging.
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Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: Capability and Charter Change in Foreign-Owned Subsidiary Companies
Julian Birkinshaw,Neil Hood +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed models such as the heterarchy (Hedlund, 1986) and the transnational (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989) to reflect the critical role played by many subsidiaries in their corporations' competitiveness.