Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

We examine organizational legitimacy in the context of the multinational enterprise (MNE).
After discussing three types of complexity (of the legitimating environment, the organization …

This paper presents a dynamic, firm‐level study of the role of network resources in
determining alliance formation. Such resources inhere not so much within the firm but reside …

Based on theories from the technological innovation literature, this study develops an
integrated model of infonnation systems (IS) adoption in small businesses. The model …

This paper addresses the performance consequences of firm‐level strategic similarity. Past
research observed that firms face pressures to be different and to be the same. By …

Unlike prior research on organizational age dependence, which has described entire
populations as exhibiting a liability of newness, adolescence, or obsolescence, this study …

Using an attribution theory viewpoint, this study examines new venture failure from the
perspectives of both the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist. Contrary to what should be …

This article presents a review and analysis of empirically based research on strategic
management in nonprofit organizations reported in major journals from 1977 to the present …

Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that new firms fail
because entrepreneurs inefficiently manage production and organizational design …

This paper provides a synthesis of transaction cost economics and institutional theory. It
reviews each of these approaches and provides suggestions on how these perspectives …