Issue Information

• Published date: 01 May 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2218
• Date: 01 May 2019

Strategies of Innovative Firms in Global and Turbulent Markets

Volume 28 Number 3 May 2019

Research Articles

167 The applicability of Porter’s generic strategies in pure online firms: A case study

approach

Marwa Firoz Suleman, Mona Rashidirad, and Saffa Firoz Suleman

Although cost leadership strategy is able to generate greater performance, pursuing a

differentiation strategy can be more worthwhile and sustainable for pure online firms.

177 Global marketplace strategy and choice of interaction after termination of

international joint venture

Nakul Parameswar and Sanjay Dhir

Foreign partner’s global marketplace strategy significantly influences the choice of

interaction after International Joint Venture termination as supplier-buyer, complement

or competitor between terminated international joint venture partners.

185 Minimizing blind men effect in strategic group research: Visualizing complex turbulent

markets

Philippe Rebière and Hareesh Mavoori

Increasing complexity and turbulence of modern markets calls for non-static

multi-theoretical/empirical approaches with intrinsic triangulation and intuitive strategic

cluster visualization to minimize the “blind men effect”to offer unbiased insights for

various stakeholders: corporate strategic managers, policy researchers and market

legislators.

203 Paths to long‐term performance and strategic planning

Sang Yoon Shin

To secure sustainability, a firm is able to pursue the long-term performance through

three paths: 1) adoption of the long-term perspective within the existing business,

2) extension into a new business and adoption of the long-term perspective, and

3) jump into the long-term new business.

209 Impact of top management team sociodemographic faultlines on speed of foreign

direct investment expansion: An emerging market perspective

Ankita Chhabra and Manish Popli

The role of upper echelon remains underexplored in emerging market contexts such as

India, which presents unique institutions of caste system embedded in the social

structure.

217 Knowledge sharing in a coopetition project team: An institutional logics perspective

Sophie d’Armagnac, Mickaël Geraudel, and David Salvetat

Cooperation between firms is often addressed from the perspective of relationship

organizing; however, we know little about people’s working-level engagement in

collective action during interfirm projects.

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