Department of Strategy and Management
Recent Submissions
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Understanding the Role of Textual Paralanguage in Electronic Word of Mouth
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12)Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) refers to online communication about products and brands among consumers. eWOM influences the consumer decision-making process and subsequently affects sales. Currently, consumers are ... -
Strategy and Digital Transformation: Exploring the Relationship Between Strategy and Digital Transformation in Established Firms
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how strategy and digital transformation work together to enhance firms' ability to compete in a digital landscape. Digital technology has fundamentally altered market dynamics ... -
Legitimizing, leveraging, and launching: Developing dynamic capabilities in the MNE
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
The Best of Both Worlds? Negotiations Between Cooperators and Individualists Provide High Economic and Relational Outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Acceptable attitudes and the limits of tolerance: Understanding public attitudes to conscientious objection in healthcare
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Destination cobranding in interorganizational networks: Assessing the role of central tourism organizations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study examines whether tourism organizations influence each other to cobrand with the destination brand as a function of the interorganizational network structure. Empirically, it combines questionnaire and ... -
Working for the Best or Bracing for the Worst? Approach and Avoidance Motivation in Planning
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The Best of Both Worlds? Negotiations Between Cooperators and Individualists Provide High Economic and Relational Outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Because negotiation is an integral part of social life, negotiators with different social motives are likely to meet. When this happens, will they be able to handle their differences constructively? We examined the relations ... -
Controlled by the algorithm, coached by the crowd–how HRM activities take shape on digital work platforms in the gig economy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)An increasing number of workers turn to digital platforms – such as Fiverr, Freelancer, and Upwork – as an alternative to traditional work arrangements. Digital platforms govern how gig workers join, move through, and leave ... -
Relatedness and the resource curse: Is there a liability of relatedness?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Literature in evolutionary economic geography has emphasized knowledge spillover benefits of co-location with related industries. We draw on resource curse literature to demonstrate that relatedness also comes with costs ... -
Triadic embeddedness, sources of relational rents, and interfirm performance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Interorganizational research has largely ignored how dyadic relationships are embedded in a wider network context. Responding to this research gap, we study how triadic embeddedness – cooperating firms structurally and ... -
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as ... -
Regional skill relatedness: towards a new measure of regional related diversification
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Stability in turbulent times? The effect of digitalization on the sustainability of competitive advantage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Does digitalization make competitive advantage more or less sustainable? One line of argument is that digitalization leads to hyper-competition and shorter spells of competitive advantage. An opposing claim is that ... -
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness
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Structuring the Start-up: How Coordination Emerges in Start-ups through Learning Sequencing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)To succeed in growing and scaling their organization, start-ups must establish roles, routines, rules, and plans that coordinate organizational activities. However, early-stage start-ups often lack such coordination ... -
Familiarity with digital twin totality: Exploring the relation and perception of affordances through a Heideggerian perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The concept of affordances has become central in information systems literature. However, existing perspectives fall short in providing details on the relational aspect of affordances, which can influence actors' perception ... -
Competing through innovation: Let the customer judge!
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Although customers are the final judges of innovations, their opinions on firms’ innovations are rarely listened to. In this article, we developed a novel model for examining the antecedents and consequences of perceived ... -
A customer-centric five actor model for sustainability and service innovation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Service industries are increasingly unsustainable. Considering consumers as change agents, we show how service innovation may contribute to a service ecosystem that helps achieve emerging sustainability goals. To achieve ...