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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present three historical approaches with the potential to understand the historical embeddedness of strategic processes and practices: realist history, interpretative history, and poststructuralist history.
Abstract: Despite the proliferation of strategy process and practice research, we lack understanding of the historical embeddedness of strategic processes and practices. In this paper, we present three historical approaches with the potential to remedy this deficiency. First, realist history can contribute to a better understanding of the historical embeddedness of strategic processes; in particular, comparative historical analysis can explicate the historical conditions, mechanisms, and causality in strategic processes. Second, interpretative history can add to our knowledge of the historical embeddedness of strategic practices, and microhistory can specifically help to understand the construction and enactment of these practices in historical contexts. Third, poststructuralist history can elucidate the historical embeddedness of strategic discourses, and genealogy can in particular increase our understanding of the evolution and transformation of strategic discourses and their power effects. Thus, this paper demonstrates how in their specific ways historical approaches and methods can add to our understanding of different forms and variations of strategic processes and practices, the historical construction of organizational strategies, and historically constituted strategic agency.
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TL;DR: In this article, the variable extent to which domestic interest organizations seek access to the multiple venues provided by the European system of governance has been investigated in four member states (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany).
Abstract: This article describes and explains the variable extent to which domestic interest organizations seek access to the multiple venues provided by the European system of governance. A multivariate analysis of data collected in four member states—France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany—reveals substantial variance in multilevel venue shopping, differences that disconfirm some descriptive accounts reported in the Europeanization literature. Surprising is that French organizations develop extensive multilevel strategies while the strategies of Dutch organizations are rather weakly Europeanized. Our analyses offer a better understanding of the factors that stimulate domestic interest groups to seek access to European Union-level policy venues. Factors such as the nature of policy issues in which groups are involved, the group's relation with domestic parties, and overall domestic embeddedness significantly explains multilevel venue-shopping. In contrast, other factors such as policy sector or the group's resources generate little explanatory power.
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of firms' institutional embeddedness in terms of age and affiliation to business group on their aggressive internationalization pursuit, an issue which has remained less explored in international business scholarship.
Abstract: According to the springboard perspective, emerging market multinationals seek strategic assets aggressively from the outset. In this paper, we investigate the role of firms’ institutional embeddedness in terms of age and affiliation to business group on their aggressive internationalization pursuits, an issue which has remained less explored in international business scholarship. This study, based on 8163 Indian listed firms over 18 years, identifies a trend that younger firms founded in the liberalized era, post 1991, and unaffiliated firms are more likely to pursue aggressive internationalization by conducting their first cross-border acquisition (CBA) faster. Among affiliated firms, younger ones are relatively faster in conducting their first CBA. Furthermore, the evidence signals a moderating impact of inter-group heterogeneity in terms of group-level assets and foreign investments on the relationship between firm age and aggressive internationalization.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of social embeddedness in creating positive perceptions of organizational support among managerial and staff employees (n=72) of a large manufacturing firm was examined, and three aspects of social embeddings were found to be associated with perceived organizational support.
Abstract: Summary We examined the role of social embeddedness in creating positive perceptions of organizational support among managerial and staff employees (n=72) of a large manufacturing firm. We operationalized social embeddedness as the size, density, and quality of employees’ networks of multiplex, reciprocated exchange relationships with colleagues. After controlling for support from supervisors and upper management, we found all three aspects of social embeddedness to be associated with perceived organizational support (POS). This research suggests that in addition to the top‐down influence of the organizational hierarchy, POS results from the organizational community within which employees are embedded through their social network in the workplace. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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