Understanding why some firms outperform others is central to strategy research. The
resource-based view (RBV) suggests that competitive advantages arise due to possessing …

In this paper, we review and analyze the emerging network paradigm in organizational
research. We begin with a conventional review of recent research organized around …

This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic
leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic …

This study reviews recent research building on Hambrick and Mason's [Hambrick, DC, &
Mason, PA (1984). Upper echelons: The organization as a reflection of its top managers …

The field of strategic management, like other social science disciplines, is organized around
a central research question. That question is:“Why do some firms persistently outperform …

abstract We discuss and examine recent claims that research on knowledge processes has
paid insufficient attention to micro (individual) level constructs and mechanisms and to the …

Global virtual teams are internationally distributed groups of people with an organizational
mandate to make or implement decisions with international components and implications …

Tacit knowledge is the knowledge that we draw on in use, but is difficult to have
consciousness of, or to express in language. The proliferation in the use of tacit knowledge …

This study surveys a broad spectrum of US manufacturer and service firms to examine the
effect of tacit knowledge transfer on firm innovation capability. The authors present a set of …

The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has become an influential theoretical perspective
in recent international business (IB) research. Tracking the evolution of the RBV literature in …