The Impact of Interorganizational Imitation on New Venture International Entry and Performance

We examine the impact of interorganizational imitation on new venture international entry and subsequent performance. Using a sample of 150 U.S.-based publicly held new ventures, we find that new venture international entry is in part an imitative response to the internationalization of other firms in the venture\u27s home country industry and/or subsets of firms with certain traits or outcomes. We also find that interorganizational imitation moderates the relationship between new venture international entry and profitability, but not the relationship between new venture international entry and sales growth. These findings contribute to the growing body of literature on new venture internationalization

The Theory/Applications Balance in Management Pedagogy: Where Do We Stand?

Business schools are expected to be "professional" in the sense that their mission is primarily to prepare people to practice their skills in the business world. Various critics, however, claim that management professors overemphasize theory and research and neglect the practice and applications students need to transfer classroom theory to the world of practice. This study compared an earlier sample with a more recent sample of Academy of Management members concerning the relative emphasis they believed should be placed on theory and applications in management pedagogy and the techniques they used to bring applications into the classroom. Current respondents believed that more emphasis should be placed on applications than the earlier respondents. An unexpected finding, however, was that the more recent respondents reported a lower mean usage of pedagogical techniques that are appropriate for developing students' ability to apply course concepts than the previous group. Possible reasons for these incongruent findings are discussed as well as the implications for management pedagogy.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

De Fábrica 'fundo de quintal' a empresa multinacional: o caso de uma aliança ítalo-brasileira sob o enfoque da abordagem estruturacionista da estratégia como prática

O objetivo deste artigo é investigar indícios estruturacionistas, decorrentes de uma aliança estratégica interorganizacional, que possam ter resultado na mudança de uma fábrica fundo de quintal para uma empresa multinacional. Atingiu-se esse objetivo realizando um estudo de caso na empresa subsidiária brasileira do setor de máquinas e componentes para móveis, atual líder do mercado. Atentou-se para as considerações de Johanson e Vahlne (2006), com relação às implicações dos relacionamentos interorganizacionais em termos de aprendizagem e oportunidades. Concordando com as crescentes exigências para elucidar a prática estratégica no cotidiano das empresas, adotou-se a abordagem de estratégia como prática em complementaridade com a teoria da estruturação para balizar o exame à indispensável ligação entre pessoas, atividades e o contexto mais amplo. Os resultados destacam diversas alterações nas atividades da empresa filial permeando as seguintes etapas da aliança: (i) pré-aliança; (ii) durante a parceria; e (iii) após a joint-venture. Para ilustrar como os elementos de práxis, práticas e praticantes estariam relacionados nessas diferentes fases do relacionamento interorganizacional, uma adaptação do gráfico de Whittington (2006) é proposta. Conclui-se apresentando um quadro com as principais atividades e ferramentas envolvidas na adaptação da empresa ao longo da aliança, entre as quais se enfatizam as práticas de mobilidade dos funcionários e do compromisso de relacionamento. Para melhor entender a forma como as alianças estratégicas afetam as empresas de bens de capital e verificar se há um padrão recorrente em termos do envolvimento de práticas, práxis e praticantes nas etapas de relacionamento, semelhante ao que está se propondo, considera-se apropriado realizar um trabalho comparativo. Dessa forma, poder-se-ia fazer inferências sobre as condições de escopo e transferibilidade

Chapter 10 Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and the Voice-of-the-Consumer

The founder of paperbackswap.com, Bobby Swarthout, developed the idea for his venture while he was a college student. As a student on a limited budget, he had become tired of paying high prices for textbooks. So he developed and launched an online textbook swapping service. Along with a small group of students, he managed to assemble a group of 12 colleges and universities across the United States to participate in textbook swapping. However, after a few months, very few students had used the site. By listening to the potential customers who chose not to participate, Bobby found out that there were too many easy substitutes for the swapping service (e.g. bookstore returns, half.com, efollett, etc.). These alternatives offered either greater convenience or cash in return for used books (especially appealing to students who did not pay for their books themselves), or other appealing features. However, Mr. Swarthout believed in his concept and also listened to the ‘voice-of-the-consumer’ (VOC) and moved his business idea into different consumer/product space: that of paperback books. Along with a few lead users attracted to his original idea, he refined the original idea, gathered resources (an angel who invested in the business) and added technological capabilities. One year later he launched paperbackswap.com. From inception, the firm embraced the VOC as the key tool in driving product development and improvement efforts. For paperbackswap.com listening to the VOC has become part of a closed-loop system where inputs from consumers are analysed and product improvements developed in response and where the loop is closed by listening to how consumers respond to product changes