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Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, Volume 4

New: Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, Volume 4 (edited by David Ketchen, Jr., and Donald D. Bergh), 2007. This book series' mission is to provide a forum for critique, commentary, and discussion about key research methodology issues in the strategic management field. Strategic management relies on an array of complex methods drawn from various allied disciplines to examine how managers attempt to lead their firms toward success. The field is undergoing a rapid transformation in methodological rigor, and researchers face many new challenges about how to conduct their research and in understanding the implications that are associated with their research choices. This book series seeks to bridge the gap between what researchers know and what they need to know about methodology. In each volume, renowned scholars contribute chapters in their areas of methodological expertise. Information on the series and ordering volumes can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/rmsm.

Volume 4 has two special sections and several exemplary contributions.

Special section on methods and the resource-based view of the firm

1. Ten years after: Some suggestions for future resource-based view research, by U. Daellenbach and M. Rouse.

2. Resource complementarity, institutional compatibility, and some ensuring methodological issues in testing the resource-based view, by T. Chi and E. Levitas.

3. Mixed methods in strategy research: Applications and implications in the resource-based view, by J. Molina-Azorin.

4. Toward greater integration of the resource-based  view and strategic groups research: An illustration using random coefficients modeling, by J. Short.

Special section on methods in international strategy research

5. Modeling international expansion, by X. Martin, A. Swaminathan and L. Tihanyi.

6. Static triangular simulation as a methodology for international strategic management research, by G. Yip, G. Hult, and A. Bink.

7. New methods for ex post evaluation of regional grouping schemes in international business research: A simulated annealing approach, by P. Vaaler, R. Aguilera and R. Flores.

Additional exemplary contributions

8. Applying advanced panel methods to strategic management research: A tutorial, by P. Hom and K. Haynes.

9. Interpreting empirical results in strategy and management research, by J.M. Shaver.

10. Mediation in strategic management research: conceptual beginnings, current application, and future recommendations, by T. Miller, M Carmen Triana, C. Reutzel and S. Certo.

11. Using policy capturing to understand strategic decisions - concepts and a mergers and acquisitions application, by A. Pablo.

12. Testing organizational economics theories of vertical integration, by K. Lajili, M. Madunic, and J. Mahoney.

13. An ontological foundation for strategic management research: The role of narrative, by D. Heil and L. Whittaker.

Southern Management Association Meetings

The Southern Management Association (SMA) will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday November 7th though Saturday November 10th at the Sheraton Downtown Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.  Allen Amason is this year’s Program Chair.  The SMA now has more than 1000 members.  Next year, its annual meeting will be held at the Trade Winds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach, Florida.  SMA President, Bill Gardner, recently announced the formation of a search committee to identify and recommend a new editor for the Journal of Management.  If you wish to nominate a person to serve as Editor, or if you have questions about the responsibilities of serving as Editor for JOM, you are encouraged to contact the chair of the committee, K. Michele “Micki” Kacmar at mkacmar@ua.edu.  For more information about the Southern Management Association, visit the SMA website at www.southernmanagement.org.

3RD EIASM Workshop
Coopetition Strategy:  Stretching the Boundaries of Coopetition
MADRID, SPAIN, FEBRUARY 7-8, 2008

Daniela Baglieri, U. of Messina, Italy
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, U. of Catania, Italy
Marco S. Giarratana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Isabel Gutiérrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The concept of Coopetition, inaugurated by the 1996 Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nabeluff’s celebrated executive book, proposes a new speculative approach in which competitive and cooperative standpoints are no more intended as separated strategies.  Over ten years after the introduction of the concept, we assist to a growing importance of coopetition strategy in a wide range of business activities and sectors and to an unexpected diffusion and extension to different management fields, such as Technology and Innovation Management, Marketing Strategy, Governance, Organizational Design, Entrepreneurship and Social Networks.  Notwithstanding that, the search for additional conceptual developments, empirical support and practical illustrations appears a required call for all academic scholars, managers and consultants genuinely interested in developing coopetition investigation and application. 

NEW BOOKS

Competing in Emerging Markets:  Cases & Readings

Hemant Merchant (Florida Atlantic University) has published a textbook, Competing in Emerging Markets:  Cases & Readings (Routledge; ISBN (Hardcover): 9780415399494; ISBN (Paperback): 97804153995009). Given the increasing prominence of Emerging markets, a sophisticated understanding of their perils and promises is crucial to the growth of companies, including those from within Emerging markets themselves.  Thus, it is surprising that, in their quest to train managers, only a few academic institutions currently provide a systematic forum to generate a superior understanding of this important economic event. This groundbreaking book provides an essential set of readings and case studies that will facilitate a much-needed fundamental rethinking about drivers of successful as well as unsuccessful firm conduct in these markets, and about the role of sophisticated but (usually) poorly-serving Western theories and ideas regarding competition and competitive traps and successes. Although the book is intended primarily for Emerging markets courses, it can also be used for various other courses in International management or International strategy.  It explores the following themes: i) the strategic and operational challenges companies face while competing in these relatively new (and, therefore, generally unfamiliar) markets, and ii) the imperative to generate creative solutions in response to idiosyncratic challenges posed by Emerging markets.  Competing in Emerging Markets emphasizes both the unique challenges facing corporate managers who operate (or intend to operate) in Emerging markets, and the ways in which managers can efficiently and effectively respond to these competitive challenges.  As one of the first comprehensive texts on this subject, Competing in Emerging Markets is certain to become a standard in the field.

Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland

“In this important book, Dan Breznitz provides new insights into the very different strategies pursued by three very different countries ­ Israel, Taiwan and Ireland ­ that each used to post remarkable post-War growth records. This is a must read for policy makers and citizens in all countries that are banking on high-tech to sustain and accelerate growth in their countries.”  ­Robert E. Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, The Kauffman Foundation, and, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
 
Book Description
The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different business models and carving out unique positions in the global IT production networks. In this book Dan Breznitz asks why economies of different countries develop in different ways, and his answer relies on his exhaustive research into the comparative experiences of Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland ­ states that made different choices to nurture the growth of their IT industries.  The role of the state in economic development has changed, Breznitz concludes, but it has by no means disappeared. He offers a new way of thinking about state-led rapid-innovation-based industrial development that takes into account the ways production and innovation are now conducted globally. And he offers specific guidelines to help states make advantageous decisions about research and development, relationships with foreign firms and investors, and other critical issues.

"Twenty-five years ago nobody predicted that Israeli, Taiwanese, and Irish firms would be at the forefront of IT globally.  Breznitz has undertaken a prodigious amount of research on the subject and presents some very interesting conclusions." ­Mauro Guillen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 

Mergers:  Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health

“Mergers: leadership, performance and corporate health”, by David Fubini, Colin Price and Maurizio Zollo, published by Pelgrave (www.palgrave.com). This book examines the role of the corporate leader in the context of post-merger management processes, focusing on 5 main challenges: 1) creating the new company at the top before the close, 2) placing the merger communication within the context of the corporate story, 3) developing the appropriate performance culture in the new company, 4) becoming an active champion for crucial external stakeholders, and 5) identify the need for and undertake integration-critical learning in real time.  Kathy Eisenhardt says the following about this book: "Mergers is a refreshing glimpse into the classic dilemma of making acquisitions that actually work.  By shifting the spotlight from integration teams to executive leadership, the authors sketch a smart and yet unexpected playbook of the five essential actions that only senior executives can take.  A must read for executives at both buyers and sellers!"

BPS Members on the Move

Maurizio Zollo is the "Bocconi Dean" chaired professor in Strategy and Corporate Responsibility at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and director of the "Bocconi International Center for Advanced Management Studies (B.I.C.A.M.S.)"; a new research center, created in memory of Prof. Claudio Dematte', with the objective to support major programs of cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with leading international scholars and similarly endowed centers. His new coordinates are: Tel. +39-02-58362525, e-mail: maurizio.zollo@unibocconi.it.  Since he maintains an affiliation with the strategy department at INSEAD, his current email Maurizio.zollo@insead.edu will still be valid.

Hemant Merchant (PhD, Purdue University) has joined the Department of Management & International Business at Barry Kaye College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (USA).  He can be reached at <merchant@fau.edu>.  Prior to his move, he was at Simon Fraser University in Canada.