Name
Title | ||
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Business Group Affiliation and Firm Search Behavior in India: Responsiveness and Focus of Attention |
Abstract | ||
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This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated with business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated firms, business group--affiliated (BG-affiliated) firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration levels and more likely to respond to low performance in the market domain. We find support for an external orientation of BG-affiliated firms and find that group affiliation determines the responsiveness to performance feedback in different search domains. The findings suggest a need to add considerations of organizational form and governance to the theory of organizational search. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1287/orsc.1090.0475 | Organization Science |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
business group,internal technology search,firm search behavior,problemistic search,different search domain,business group affiliation,organizational search,organizational form,performance feedback,external market search,unaffiliated firm,low performance | Corporate governance,Public relations,Organizational form,Group Affiliation,Corporate group,Performance feedback,Business | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
21 | 3 | 1047-7039 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.66 | 6 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balagopal Vissa | 1 | 17 | 1.63 |
| Henrich R. Greve | 2 | 94 | 12.06 |
| Weiru Chen | 3 | 46 | 6.64 |