The burgeoning digital-platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily
characterized the platform as a market or network. Although the organizing role of platform …

Innovative start-ups can create and shape new industries and generate considerable
economic and societal impacts. Accordingly, a variety of policy initiatives are aimed at …

Long-established family firms are endowed with a bundle of beliefs and practices that
constitute their tradition. However, to remain competitive, they need to renew their products …

While literature reviews play an increasingly important role in theory development,
understanding how they contribute to the process of theorizing is lacking. This article …

In this research, we ask whether and how founders bring about business model innovation.
Grounded in an in-depth longitudinal multiple-case study, our analysis reveals three …

We theorize how an ideological imprint—ideology formed through past events—serves as
an information filter that persistently affects individuals' decision making and how …

Abstract Research Summary The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the
use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. We discuss how and …

Innovation is a key determinant of long-term success for family firms. We apply a multiple
case study research design to investigate the relationship between stories that are shared …

This article seeks to shed light on the diversity of scaling strategies of social enterprises,
which can be considered as emblematic hybrid organizations. By comparing three Flemish …

This book synthesizes a decade of research by the author into fundamental issues in
organization design. The result is a novel micro-structural perspective on organizations …