Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a recently published special
issue of Managerial and Decision Economics: Frontiers of Strategic
Management Research. The papers in the issue are listed below and the
full contents can be found on the Wiley InterScience site at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/7976/home
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS
Volume 29 Issue 2-3 (March - April 2008)
SPECIAL ISSUE: FRONTIERS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Issue edited by Catherine A. Maritan & Margaret A. Peteraf
Mary Tripsas: Customer Preference Discontinuities: A Trigger for Radical
Technological Change
Margaret A. Peteraf & Randal Reed: Regulatory Reform and Managerial
Choice: An Analysis of the Cost Savings from Airline Deregulation
Aya S. Chacar & William Hesterly: Institutional Settings and Rent
Appropriation by Knowledge-Based Employees: The Case of Major League
Baseball
Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh & Prashant Kale: Splitting the Pie: Rent
Distribution in Alliances and Networks
Kyle J. Mayer & Janet Bercovitz: The Influence of Inertia on Contract
Design: Contingency Planning in Information Technology Service Contracts
Ranjay Gulati & Maxim Sytch: Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting
the Antecedents of Trust
Mark H. Hansen, Robert E. Hoskisson & Jay B. Barney: Competitive
Advantage in Alliance Governance: Resolving the Opportunism
Minimization-Gain Maximization Paradox
Timothy B. Folta & Jonathan P. O'Brien: Determinants of Firm-Specific
Thresholds in Acquisition Decisions
Catherine A. Maritan & Robert E. Florence: Investing in Capabilities:
Bidding in Strategic Factor Markets with Costly Information
Christopher B. Bingham & Kathleen M. Eisenhardt: Disentangling Resources
from the Resource-Based View: A Typology of Strategic Logics and
Competitive Advantage
Michael G. Jacobides: Playing Football in a Soccer Field: Value Chain
Structures, Institutional Modularity and Success in Foreign Expansion
Mariko Sakakibara & Hideki Yamawaki: What Determines the Profitability
of Foreign Direct Investment? A Subsidiary-Level Analysis of Japanese
Multinationals