In many industries, the traditional sources of competitive advantage tend to evaporate fairly
rapidly. Therefore, managers need to continually rethink and reformulate their firm …

Previous literature reviews of strategic flexibility have a number of shortcomings: they lack a
specific focus in the field, provide an excessive definitional focus or lack a clear empirical …

Research Summary: This paper extends the relational view to offer a dynamic perspective
on the factors that drive value creation and value capture over the alliance life cycle. We …

Temporary organizing is introduced as process, form and perspective. Then key challenges
and opportunities in the study of temporary organizing are discussed, including …

This paper reviews the growing body of work on network dynamics in organizational
research, focusing on a corpus of 187 articles—both “micro”(ie, interpersonal) and …

Much research has shown that firms' ego network configurations—ie, structural holes or
network closure—help them achieve superior innovation outcomes. However, little is known …

The theme of inter-organizational relationships involving SMEs (SME IORs) has generated a
relevant body of knowledge that has not been systematized yet. This article carries out a …

Time orientation matters. While a temporal perspective is widely recognized as an important
lens in strategic management research, few studies have explored how top managers' …

Strategic alliances–partnerships between separate organizations to share resources
collaboratively toward mutually beneficial goals–are an important management instrument …

Effectively capturing opportunities requires rapid decision making. We investigate the speed
of opportunity-evaluation decisions by focusing on firms' venture termination and venture …