Restructuring Strategy – New Networks and Industry Challenges

<p>List of Contributors vii</p>
<p>About the Editors x</p>
<p>1 Restructuring Strategy 1<br /> James Henderson, Karel Cool, and Ren&eacute; Abate</p>
<p>Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15</p>
<p>2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry 17<br /> Karel Cool and James Henderson</p>
<p>3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry 44<br /> Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni</p>
<p>4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance 68<br /> Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily</p>
<p>5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage 86<br /> Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko</p>
<p>Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring 111</p>
<p>6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter–firm Differences in the e–Consulting Industry 113<br /> M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda</p>
<p>7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139<br /> Moren L&eacute;vesque and Dean A. Shepherd</p>
<p>8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent–Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change 153<br /> Neil Jones</p>
<p>9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth 175<br /> Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen</p>
<p>Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices 205</p>
<p>10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource–based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice 207<br /> Mark H. Hansen, Lee T. Perry, and C. Shane Reese</p>
<p>11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236<br /> Johanna Mair</p>
<p>12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance? 251<br /> Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold</p>
<p>13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process 268<br /> Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein</p>
<p>Index 289</p>