Goal configuration in a global industry context

Abstract

This study analyzes the goal configuration of 126 firms, based in Japan, U.K. and U.S., competing in global industries. The results indicate that firm nationality and internationalization do not affect the firm's goal configuration. The breadth of the firm's reward system was found to be related positively to a dispersed goal configuration and, within global and multifocal industry segments, a congruence between goal configuration and industry position was found to be associated positively with performance.

Congenital learning in the Spanish telecommunication industry

“…▪ As the use of objective measures may pose some difficulties to researchers in making causal inference from the historical data (March and Sutton, 1997), this study adopts subjective measures to get a more comprehensive evaluation of firm performance. In this regard, several measures of business performance have appeared in the literature and we adopt the growth based measures proposed by McDougall et al (1994), Roth and Ricks (1994), and Bontis et al (2000) for sales, profits and profitability on total assets. The items had responses drawn from a 7-point scale ranging from 1 (much worse than competitors) to 7 (much better than competitors).…”

Industry globalization and the performance of emerging market firms: Evidence from China

“…Second, they are a direct measure of the extent of linkages of a national industry with the outside world. They also share common antecedents with globalization-e.g., high economies of scale, a frequently mentioned antecedent of high industry globalization, will lead to centralization of value addition activities such as manufacturing (high globalization), in turn increasing the trade flow levels (Kotabe & Glenn, 1989;Morrison & Roth, 1992;Roth & Ricks, 1994). Trade flow levels do not include factors such as sharing/flow of intangible assets which are another characteristic of highly globalized industries.…”

Organizational Responses to Regional Integration Among MNEs in Latin America

“…For certain companies this means seeking higher integration of their value-chain activities across geographic areas in search for efficiencies that come from scale, scope and learning economies, and linking their network of subsidiaries tightly O´Donnell 2000;Roth and Ricks 1994;taggart 1998).…”

“…16 Drawing from the literature we included a total of 16 measures dealing with (1) economies of scale, learning effects and product standardization (Kotabe and Omura 1989;Morrison and Roth 1992;Roth and Ricks 1994); (2) technological intensity (cho 1990;Doz 1987;Kobrin 1991); (3) advertising intensity and homogeneity of media (caves 1981); (4) standardization of demand and channels of distribution (Doz 1987;hout et al 1982); and (5) barriers to trade and regulatory environment (Morrison 1990;Kobrin 1991). Descriptive statistics for these 16 variables and their inter-correlation are presented in tables 2, 3.…”