Search Results - "Ethiraj, Sendil"

Fight or flight? Market positions, submarket interdependencies, and strategic responses to entry threats by Ethiraj, Sendil, Zhou, Yue Maggie

“…Research Summary This paper examines how incumbent firms' market positions and interdependencies across their submarkets influence their responses to entry…”
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Replication in strategic management by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Gambardella, Alfonso, Helfat, Constance E.

“…SMJ is committed to publishing high‐quality replications on a regular basis. SMJ's overriding goal in publishing replications is to provide additional evidence…”
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The Division of Gains from Complementarities in Human-Capital-Intensive Activity by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Garg, Pranav

“…This study uses data from the National Basketball Association to explore organizational mechanisms that affect the division of firm surplus in…”
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Hoping for A to Z While Rewarding Only A: Complex Organizations and Multiple Goals by Ethiraj, Sendil K, Levinthal, Daniel

“…This paper explores the trade-offs inherent in the pursuit and fulfillment of multiple performance goals in complex organizations. We examine two related…”
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Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems by Ethiraj, Sendil K, Levinthal, Daniel

“…The problem of designing, coordinating, and managing complex systems has been central to the management and organization literature. Recent writings have…”
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The Dual Role of Modularity: Innovation and Imitation by Ethiraj, Sendil K, Levinthal, Daniel, Roy, Rishi R

“…Modularity has been heralded as an organizational and technical architecture that enhances incremental and modular innovation. Less attention has been paid to…”
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Improving Data Availability: A New SMJ Initiative by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Gambardella, Alfonso, Helfat, Constance E.

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Articles on datasets by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Gambardella, Alfonso, Helfat, Constance E.

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Allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems by Ethiraj, Sendil K.

“…This paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems, e.g., personal computers (PCs), are…”
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Theory in strategic management by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Gambardella, Alfonso, Helfat, Constance E.

“…Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) seeks to publish high‐quality theoretical research on a regular basis. By publishing theoretical research, SMJ advances the…”
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Reviews of strategic management research by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Gambardella, Alfonso, Helfat, Constance E.

“…SMJ welcomes high‐quality reviews of strategic management research that not only synthesize existing research, but also seek to stimulate new research. As the…”
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Performance effects of imitative entry by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Zhu, David H.

“…This article examines how waiting to imitate a product affects the performance of the imitator compared to the innovator. Specifically, we address two research…”
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Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry by Ethiraj, Sendil K., Kale, Prashant, Krishnan, M. S., Singh, Jitendra V.

“…Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the notion of capabilities as an important source of competitive advantage. This recognition has, in turn,…”
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Does complexity deter customer-focus? by Ethiraj, Sendil K, Ramasubbu, Narayan, Krishnan, M.S.

“…Economic models suggest that firms use a simple cost-benefit calculation to evaluate customer requests for new product features, but an extensive…”
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Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and Their Evolvability by Sendil K. Ethiraj, Levinthal, Daniel

“…We employ a computational model of organizational adaptation to answer three research questions: (1) How does the architecture or structure of complexity…”
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How Do Firms Appropriate Value from Employees with Transferable Skills? A Study of the Appropriation Puzzle in Actively Managed Mutual Funds by Sevcenko, Victoria, Ethiraj, Sendil

“…How do firms benefit from employees with transferable skills? The prevailing view is that labor market frictions that impede employee mobility or strategies…”
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The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act by Zhou, Yue Maggie, Yang, Weikun, Ethiraj, Sendil

“…Research Summary We provide a theory of when relatedness will encourage both diversifying entry and post‐entry exit. Our formal model reveals two channels…”
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Platform Governance in the Presence of Within-Complementor Interdependencies: Evidence from the Rideshare Industry by Chung, Hyuck David, Zhou, Yue Maggie, Ethiraj, Sendil

“…Existing studies suggest that platform access restriction may cause restricted complementors to switch to competing platforms, which will increase complement…”
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How Do Firms Appropriate Value from Employees with Transferable Skills? A Study of the Appropriation Puzzle in Actively Managed Mutual Funds by Sevcenko, Victoria, Ethiraj, Sendil

“…Organizations, as is true with social systems more generally, tend to be nearly, not fully, decomposable. However, analyses of nearly decomposable systems have…”
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CREATING REPEATABLE CUMULATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: A CALL FOR A BROAD AND DEEP CONVERSATION AMONG AUTHORS, REFEREES, AND EDITORS by BETTIS, RICHARD A., ETHIRAJ, SENDIL, GAMBARDELLA, ALFONSO, HELFAT, CONSTANCE, MITCHELL, WILL

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