Restructuring Strategy New Networks and

This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring.

René Abate is Senior Vice President in the Paris office of The Boston Consulting Group. He has recently published a book on the history of the largest French companies, called ‘Trajectoire d’exception: à la découverte des plus grandes enterprises française’.

Karel Cool holds the BP Chair of European Competitiveness and is Professor of Strategic Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has consulted for many international companies on major problems of corporate and industry restructuring and is the Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.

James Henderson holds the Tejabaipul Term Chair and is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. He works on many strategy-related topics for international companies.

List of Contributors

vii

About the Editors

x

1 Restructuring Strategy

1

(14)

James Henderson, Karel Cool, and Rene Abate

Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness

15

(96)

2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry

17

(27)

Karel Cool and James Henderson

3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry

44

(24)

Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni

4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance

68

(18)

Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily

5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage

86

(27)

Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko

Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring

111

(94)

6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry

113

(26)

M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda

7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long?

139

(14)

Moren Lévesque and Dean A. Shepherd

8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change

153

(22)

Neil Jones

9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth

175

(30)

Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen

Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices

205

(84)

10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice

207

(29)

Mark H. Hansen, Lee T Perry, and C. Shane Reese

11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance

236

(15)

Johanna Mair

12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance?

251

(17)

Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold

13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process

268

(21)

Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein

Index

289

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