Research summary: A ttaining optimal distinctiveness—positive stakeholder perceptions
about a firm's strategic position that reconciles competing demands for differentiation and …

To acquire resources, new ventures need to be perceived as legitimate. For this to occur, a
venture must meet the expectations of various audiences with differing norms, standards …

This textbook on knowledge management draws on the authors' more than twenty years of
research, teaching and consulting experience. The first edition of this book brought together …

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

We integrate theory and research from disparate areas to develop a descriptive stakeholder
theory. We (1) show that at any given organizational life cycle stage, certain stakeholders …

This 4-year study examines the effect of strategic decision speed upon subsequent firm
performance and identifies environmental and organizational characteristics that relate to …

Adapting a concept from the biological sciences, organizational researchers have proposed
a life cycle of organizational development from birth to death. Several distinct models have …

Stages of growth models were the most frequent theoretical approach to understanding
entrepreneurial business growth from 1962 to 2006; they built on the growth imperative and …

Despite the conceptual, empirical, and theoretical advances in strategy–performance
research, there is little consensus regarding the nature and form of this association. As a …

This research explores how managers and leaders of the information and communications
technology (ICT) firms perceive receptiveness of start-up, growth, or mature developmental …