Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy

by Brian S. Silverman (Editor), Timothy Folta (Editor), Constance Helfat (Editor), Samina Karim (Editor)

Overview

It has been long understood that value creation by corporate strategists is determined by their ability to effectively deploy resources across multiple business units. Recently, scholarly attention has been dominated by studies of "synergy", or sharing resources across businesses. However, a second type of resource deployment, "resource redeployability" or "resource configuration", where resources are withdrawn from one business unit and reallocated to another may not only effect firm value creation, but also firm and industry evolution. This volume advances the resource deployment and synergy debate, and how they differentially affect value and firm decision-making. It clarifies the theoretical determinants and effects of each, revisiting prior work that investigates the benefits of synergy-based strategy, and assessing the benefits of an increased focus on redeployability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786355089
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Series:	Advances in Strategic Management , #35
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Edited by Timothy B. Folta, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, Strasbourg, France Constance E. Helfat, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Samina Karim, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms Timothy B. Folta Constance E. Helfat Samina Karim 1

Resource Redeployment in Business Ecosystems Douglas P. Hannah Robert P. Bremner Kathleen M. Eisenhardt 19

Product Turnover: Simultaneous Product Market Entry and Exit Douglas J. Miller Hsiao-Shan Yang 49

Resource Redeployment Through Exit and Entry: Threats of Substitution as Inducements Gwendolyn K. Lee Srikanth Parachuri 89

Incumbent Responses to an Entrant with a New Business Model: Resource Co-Deployment and Resource Re-Deployment Strategies Gantam Ahnja Elena Novelli 125

Resource Characteristics and Redeployment Strategies: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Jaideep Anand Hyunseob Kim Shaohua Lu 155

What Goes on Beneath the Surface of Reconfiguration? The Impact of Redeployment via Activity Addition and Subtraction on Firm Scope and Turnover Joel Blit Christopher C. Liu Will Mitchell 185

Resource Reconfiguration and Transactions Across Firm Boundaries: The Roles of Firm Capabilities And Market Factors Patia J. McGrath Harbir Singh 217

The Hare and the Fast Tortoise: Dynamic Resource Reconfiguration and the Pursuit of New Growth Opportunities by Yahoo and Google (1995-2007) Violin A P. Rindova Luis L. Martins Adrian Yeow 253

Linking Technologies to Applications-Insights from Online Markets for Technology Gary Dushnitsky Thomas Klueter 285

Resource Reconfiguration: Learning from Performance Feedback Ari Dothan Dovev Lavie 319

The Impact of Absorbed and Unabsorbed Slack on Firm Profitability: Implications for Resource Redeployment Josep M. Argilés-Bosch Josep Garcia-Blandon Mónica Martinez-Blasco 371

About the Authors 397