Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy.

Front Cover -- Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms -- Introduction -- Multi-Business Firms Are Alive and Well -- Corporate Flexibility through Resource Redeployment -- Inter-Temporal Economies of Scope versus Intra-Temporal Economies of Scope -- Inter-Temporal Economies of Scope versus Internal Capital Markets -- Inter-Temporal Economies of Scope versus Institutional Voids -- Inter-Temporal Economies of Scope versus Diversification of Risk -- The Contributions in This Volume -- Editorial Perspective -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Resource Redeployment in Business Ecosystems -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Competing in Ecosystem Industries -- Methods -- Data Sources -- Consumer Solar, Inc. -- Resource Redeployment at Consumer Solar -- Consumer Solar's 2007 Entry and 2009 Exit from Installation -- Consumer Solar's 2010 Entry and 2014 Exit from Finance -- Consumer Solar's 2014 Re-Entry into Installation -- Consumer Solar's Entry and Exit into State Markets -- Discussion -- Value Creation through Resource Redeployment -- Capability Improvement -- Bottleneck Relief -- Key Conditions: Uncertain and Evolving Markets, Related Resources, and Resource Constraints -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Product Turnover: Simultaneous Product Market Entry and Exit -- Theory and Hypotheses -- Industry Dynamics through the Lens of the Firm's Product Portfolio -- Constraints on Growth and Resource Redeployment -- Methods -- Data -- Description of the Phenomenon -- Dependent Variables -- Incidence of Product Turnover -- By Firm Size -- By Industry -- Hypothesis Testing -- Statistical Estimation -- Independent and Control Variables -- Results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment.

References -- Appendix -- Resource Redeployment through Exit and Entry: Threats of Substitution as Inducements -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background and Development -- Notion of Inducements -- Emerging and Shifting Threats of Substitution -- Resource Redeployment through Exit and Entry -- Resource Commitments in a Domain -- Market Relatedness between a Firm's Existing Businesses and the New One -- Research Methods -- Sampling Frame and Empirical Setting -- Data Sources -- Capturing Emerging and Shifting Substitution Threat with Content Analysis of Media Rhetoric -- Dependent Variable and Analytical Technique -- Primary Variables of Theoretical Interest -- Volume of Substitution Rhetoric -- The Firm's Resource Commitments in the Domain of Internet Infrastructure -- Market Relatedness between the Firm's Existing Businesses and the New One -- Control Variables -- Content Analysis -- Emerging and Shifting Substitution Rhetoric Involving the New Product -- Results -- Estimating Resource Redeployment through Exit and Entry -- Discussions -- Limitations and Future Research Directions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Incumbent Responses to an Entrant with a New Business Model: Resource Co-Deployment and Resource Re-Deployment Strategies -- Introduction -- Prior Research -- Incumbents and Business Model Disruption -- Competing Business Models and Resource Deployment -- The Incumbent's Response to an Entrant with a New Business Model -- Choosing between Response Strategies -- Choosing the Status Quo Strategy -- Choosing the Strengthen Strategy -- Choosing the Straddle Strategy -- Choosing the Synthesis Strategy -- Choosing the Switch Strategy -- Choosing the Scoot/Start over Strategy -- Discussion -- Note -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Resource Characteristics and Redeployment Strategies: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis.

Theoretical Background -- A Temporal View of Redeployment Strategies -- A Continuum of Theoretical Perspectives -- Redeployment Strategies: Role of Firms and Markets -- Conceptual Framework -- Fungibility -- Scale-Free Resource -- Decomposability -- Tradability -- Resource Characteristics and Redeployment Strategies -- Non-Fungible, Non-Scale Free, and Non-Decomposable Resources -- Non-Fungible, Non-Scale Free, and Decomposable Resources -- Non-Fungible and Scale-Free Resources -- Fungible, Scale-Free, and (Non-) Tradable Resources -- Fungible, Non-Scale Free, and (Non-)Tradable Resources -- Behavioral and Agency Effects on Adoption of Resource Redeployment Strategies -- Satisficing Outcomes and Aspiration Levels -- Agency Motives -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- What Goes on Beneath the Surface of Reconfiguration? The Impact of Redeployment via Activity Addition and Subtraction on Firm Scope and Turnover -- Introduction -- Background: Addition, Subtraction, Turnover, and Scope -- Net Addition and Subtraction Rates Determine the Change in Firm Scope -- Aggregate Addition and Subtraction Rates Determine the Turnover Rate -- Model -- Model Set Up -- Steady State -- Assessing Assumptions A1-A3 in the Basic Model -- Comparative Statics -- Implications of the Model so Far -- Model Extension: Absorptive Capacity -- Model Extension -- Implications of Absorptive Capacity Extension -- Discussion -- Managerial Implications -- Limits and Directions for Future Research -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Resource Reconfiguration and Transactions across Firm Boundaries: The Roles of Firm Capabilities and Market Factors -- Introduction -- Why Is Resource Reconfiguration between Firms Important to Study? -- Creating a Common Language for Resource Reconfiguration.

Setting a Research Agenda for Between-Firm Resource Reconfiguration -- Three Perspectives of Between-Firm Resource Reconfiguration -- Resource Reconfigurability and the Resource-Based View -- Reconfiguration across Firm Boundaries and the View of the Market for Corporate Control -- Market Characteristics that Shape the Environment for Resource Reconfiguration across Firm Boundaries -- Market-Driven Motives for Reconfiguration across Firm Boundaries -- Resource Reconfiguration across Firm Boundaries and the Capabilities-Based View -- Research Questions Motivated by the Three Views of Resource Reconfiguration -- Discussion -- Exploring Research Question 1: Firm-Level External Resource Reconfiguration Capability -- External Resource Reconfiguration Capability Development and Use -- Exploring Research Question 2: External Reconfiguration Choices and the Role of the Market -- Institutionalizing the Market for Assets: Private Equity -- Exploring Research Question 3: Resource Reconfiguration Viewed through a Transactional Lens -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Hare and the Fast Tortoise: Dynamic Resource Reconfiguration and the Pursuit of New Growth Opportunities by Yahoo and Google (1995-2007) -- Methods -- Research Setting -- Data Collection -- New Product Launches -- Resource Reconfiguration Approaches -- Data Analysis -- Data Coding -- Extracting Patterns and Theory Development -- Findings -- Growth Paths: Interfirm Differences in Product Launches and Opportunity Pursuit -- Sensing and Mode of Opportunity Identification: Discovery versus Creation -- Seizing and Sustaining through Dynamic Resource Platforms -- Dynamic Resource Shifts through External Resource Sourcing -- Targeted Resource Orchestration -- Complementarity in Targeted Resource Orchestration to Balance Dynamism and Capability Development -- Discussion.

Dynamic Capabilities and Dynamic Resource Platforms -- Dynamic Resource Platforms and Entrepreneurial Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Linking Technologies to Applications - Insights from Online Markets for Technology -- Introduction -- Theory and Hypotheses Development -- Linking Technological Inventions and Commercial Applications -- Technological Generality and Commercial Applications -- Challenges Linking Technologies and Applications -- Prior Commercialization, Organizational Routines and Highly General Technologies -- Methods and Analysis -- Context - Online Market for Technology -- Sample -- Variables -- Dependent Variable -- Independent Variables -- Controls -- Empirical Specification -- Analysis -- Online Markets for Technology - Facilitating Linkages between Technologies and Applications? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Resource Reconfiguration: Learning from Performance Feedback -- Introduction -- Theory -- Performance Feedback as a Driver of Resource Reconfiguration -- Performance Feedback and the Munificence of Complementary Resources -- Performance Feedback and the Uncertainty of Complementary Resources -- Research Methods -- Dependent Variable - Knowledge Reconfiguration -- Independent Variable - Performance Gap -- Moderator - Munificence of Complementary Resources -- Moderator - Uncertainty of Complementary Resources -- Control Variables -- Analysis -- Results -- Post Hoc Analysis: Codeployment versus Redeployment -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- The Impact of Absorbed and Unabsorbed Slack on Firm Profitability: Implications for Resource Redeployment -- Introduction -- Research Background and Hypothesis -- Unabsorbed versus Absorbed Slack -- Implications of Slack on Profitability -- Research Design -- Equation and Dependent Variables.

Measures of Absorbed and Unabsorbed Slack.

This volume examines the differences between resource sharing and resource redeployment, and the subsequent effects on firm value creation and industry evolution.

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