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- Zander, Ivo, et al.
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The inside track : On the important (but neglected) role of customers in the resource-based view of strategy and firm growth
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 42:8, s. 1519-1548
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues for the important role of customers as a source of competitive advantage and firm growth, an issue which has been largely neglected in the resource-based view of the firm. It conceptualizes Penrose’s (1959) notion of an ‘inside track’ and illustrates how in-depth knowledge about established customers combines with joint problem-solving activities and the rapid assimilation of new and previously unexploited skills and resources. It is suggested that the inside track represents a distinct and perhaps underestimated way of generating rents and securing long-term growth. This also implies that the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in important respects can be sought in idiosyncratic interfirm relationships rather than within the firm itself.
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- Andersson, Anneli, 1963-
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Vi blev antagligen för många : Könskränkande behandling i akademisk miljö
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to further the theoretical understanding of gender harassment. I suggest an approach and a theoretical model that answers the question of how to understand and describe gender harassment both in terms of specific actions taken against an individual because of gender and the combined actions that constitute a gender harassment process. Due to the fact that gender harassment takes place in a structure and that the perpetrator needs structural support to be able to harass, the model considers existing power relationships at the workplace, i.e. how gender harassment reflects the distribution of power and structural behaviour of men and women. As my empirical material indicate aggressive behaviour and fear it is crucial to raise the issue of violence and to consider to what extent gender harassment is expressed av violence in the workplace. The empirical material contains broad-based and in-depth narratives about a kind of situation that is not well defined in the extant literature or elsewhere. It is essentially unknown whether gender harassment takes place to the same extent as sexual harassment. Even though quite a few narratives about daily working life bear witness of such situations they have remained largely undefined and little understood. In the present study, a combination of feministic organization theory about powerstructures at the workplace and violence theory is used to broaden the picture and to develop an instrument for understanding narratives about gender harassment. The results from the analysis, drawing upon material from practical gender equality work at a university and four in-depth interviews with victims of gender harassment, suggest that a combination of feministic organization theory and violence theory is fruitful for understanding the phenomenon of gender harassment. It is suggested that the proposed theoretical model offers a first but important step towards identifying and preventing gender harassment at the workplace.
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- Andersson, Maria, 1972-
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Creating and sharing subsidiary knowledge within multinational corporations
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The conditions facing multinational corporations today reflect the increasing globalization of international business, in which knowledge is an important ingredient. Subsidiaries are important as they, to various degrees, possess unique knowledge, thus accounting for the strength of the multinational corporation, which is the topic under study in this thesis. The multinational corporation consists of geographically dispersed units, which are linked together in a complicated pattern. One of the issues explored in this thesis is what drives the knowledge creation of subsidiaries, as it is acknowledged that the strength of a multinational corporation resides in these globally dispersed units. Another issue is to investigate the role of headquarters’ recognition and of corporate relationships in sharing of subsidiary knowledge. A third issue explored is the use of Centres of Excellence and transnational teams as two organizational forms for knowledge creation and sharing. A combination of research methods was used to provide an enhanced picture of the research phenomena. As a part of an international research project, a survey was undertaken, resulting in data from 2107 foreign-owned subsidiaries located in seven different countries. In addition, two case studies have been performed in order to gain deeper understanding of (i) how subsidiaries create knowledge and (ii) the use of different organizational forms in MNCs for processing knowledge. The five papers included discuss creation and sharing of subsidiary knowledge. It was confirmed that subsidiaries create knowledge of significance for other units within the multinational corporation. The results show that that one of the main drivers for the creation of knowledge is interaction based on local market relationships, especially those with market customers. Corporate sharing of subsidiary knowledge is brought about by headquarters recognition of these units’ knowledge. This is facilitated if other corporate units have been involved in the creation of that knowledge. Another finding in the study is the use of Centres of Excellence and transnational teams for knowledge creation and sharing. Although the two different organizational forms serve the same purpose, they differ in organization and in antecedents to their knowledge processes.
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- Andersson, Martin, et al.
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Jobbskapande och produktivitet i små kontra nya företag : Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2020 till John Haltiwanger
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 7:49, s. 5-15
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Forskningsöversikt (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna artikel presenterar 2020 års pristagare av Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research – John Haltiwanger – och de bidrag han har gjort inom entreprenörskapsforskningen. Haltiwanger har bl a bidragit till att förbättra vår förståelse av hur jobb skapas och försvinner, kartlägga vilka faktorer som styr produktivitet samt analysera hur småföretag bidrar till den ekonomiska utvecklingen. Hans forskning har inspirerat såväl policydebatt som nationella statistikmyndigheter världen över.
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- Basu, Eve-Michelle, 1990-
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Solving for ‘X’ : Understanding New Venture Units
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Innovation ‘labs’, ‘garages’ and ‘X’ units are proliferating in corporations across geographic and industry boundaries. However, semi-autonomous units poised to organize entrepreneurship within established corporations are not a novel phenomenon: such new venture units (NVUs) first appeared in the 1970s. Since then, they experienced multiple cycles of ebbing and flowing popularity and evolved considerably. Different generations of NVUs are products of their time and characterized by residual novelty. Prior research explores past generations of NVUs and typically takes the corporate venturing perspective as a starting point. This perspective presupposes a particular objective for these units: to add new business to and generate new revenue streams for their parent corporation. Less understood are contemporary NVUs, as well as whether and to what extent NVUs may, in fact, contribute to corporate entrepreneurship in other and novel ways. This thesis sets out to revisit and understand contemporary NVUs taking an organizational perspective, which examines the social stock of knowledge about current NVUs articulated in multimodal discourse. Drawing on novel theoretical and methodological ways of seeing, it explores what these units are and do, as well as what objectives they pursue. The findings suggest the following. First, NVUs do not, in fact, appear to be effective vehicles for creating and developing new ventures that survive within the parent corporation. Second, contemporary NVUs function as vehicles for corporate ideation that are tasked more explicitly than previous generations with exploratory activities, such as search, experimentation, and variation. Third, NVUs’ distinct culture, processes, and modus operandi are ends in and of themselves: contemporary NVUs serve as test sites for novel ways of working and nurture entrepreneurial innovation processes throughout the organization. Finally, the findings suggest that these units are a means to legitimate large, established corporations in business environments that are increasingly dynamic and face disruption by entrepreneurial startups. The thesis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of NVUs as part of a larger organizational system in which they create value through more than new business and revenue streams. In highlighting the broader and more strategic role of contemporary NVUs, it also helps explain the recurrent interest in these units that is counterintuitive from the corporate venturing perspective. NVUs attract interest today not despite their shortcomings as vehicles for corporate venturing, but because they can accommodate a new entrepreneurial way of working, which enables and signals the transformation of the organization, and, in so doing, they catalyze a broader process of becoming an entrepreneurial and innovative corporation.
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