
Dan SchendelPurdue University West Lafayette | Purdue · Department of Management
Dan Schendel
B.S. Metallurgical Eng; MBA, Ph.D.
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Intense competition among countries, industries, and firms on a global level is a recent development, owed to the confluence of several major trends. Among these trends are the decline of tariff and other trade barriers under GATT, and attendant rising confidence in the gains from free trade; enormous increases in direct foreign investment; the gro...
This study attempts to identify conditions under which announcements of international joint venture (JV) formation lead to increases in shareholder value of participating U.S. firms. It does so by combining the singular theoretical foci of previous work on the topic and specifying previously unconsidered, but conceptually important, influences on f...
This study attempts to identify conditions under which announcements of international joint venture (JV) formation lead to increases in shareholder value of participating U.S. firms. It does so by combining the singular theoretical foci of previous work on the topic and specifying previously unconsidered, but conceptually important, influences on f...
The 1997 Summer Special Issue of the Strategic Management Journal is introduced by the Editor-in-Chief, Dan Schendel. The Special Issue deals with what Guest Editors, Rebecca Henderson and Will Mitchell call ‘reciprocal interactions’ among environment, strategy, capabilities and performance. Why study of these reciprocal interactions may be useful...
How can executives achieve a match between expected external environmental conditions and internal organizational capabilities that facilitates improved performance? This paper argues that a firm's choice of ‘reference points’ can help achieve strategic alignment capable of yielding improved performance and potentially even a sustainable competitiv...
Sumario: How do firms behave? -- Why are firms different? -- What are the functions of the headquarters unit in a multibusiness firm? -- What determines success or failure in international competition?
This essay examines the relationship between strategic management and economics. It introduces the special issue on this same topic by providing a guide to the eight papers contained in the special issue, and it offers the guest editors viewpoints on the contributions of each discipline to the other. The essay notes the major contribution from econ...
This paper develops a maximum likelihood based methodology for simultaneously performing multidimensional unfolding and cluster analysis on two-way dominance or profile data. This new procedure utilizes mixtures of multivariate conditional normal distributions to estimate a joint space of stimulus coordinates and K ideal points, one for each cluste...
Whether and why members of the same strategic group would experience different performance results has received little attention in previous research. These questions are addressed in this paper. First, conventional theory on the relationship between firm performance and strategic group membership is reviewed. Then a theory is developed as to how h...
The focus of this paper is on three major questions: (1) what is the theoretical rationale for the strategic group concept?; (2) does strategic group membership have performance implications?; and (3) are strategic groups and membership in strategic groups stable characteristics of industries? A statistical procedure is proposed to longitudinally i...
Using the PIMS SPIYR data base, which pools cross-section and timeseries data, an empirical study to identify business strategy types was undertaken. Using a two-stage methodological approach combining principal component and cluster analysis on both a consumer products and an industrial products data base, two sets of strategy typologies were iden...
Whistle-blowing is examined as an act of collective opposition to authority taking place within a context of political conflict. Organizations, viewed as private governments, provide members with numerous opportunities for political action to seek greater autonomy, to dissent from organizational policies, to oppose organizational authority, to depo...
Systematic strategic management is a recent and still developing concern of both practitioners and students of management. It is necessary, therefore, to define in this first issue of the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) both the limits and the contents of the subject which will be welcomed to its pages.
Since we hope to attract our readers and c...
A case study of nationally known incident of whistle blowing at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transportation System). A reconstruction of the event based on official documents, interviews with the four engineers, political officials, BART management, and representatives of the California Society of Professional Engineers.
A study of an incident at the Bay Area Rapid Transit District when three engineers were fired for publicly reporting their concerns about the plans for an automatic train control system. Lengthy, detailed, and repeated interviews were conducted with the three engineers, BART's top management, key Director's of the board, and representatives of prof...
Over the past decade strategy has become a concept of value to management as it relates the firm to the threats and opportunities of an increasingly turbulent environment. However, empirical tests of the validity of the strategy construct have been limited, as have been the managerial applications of the models used to test the construct. Early res...
Why are some firms able to break-out of stagnating or declining performance patterns? This study, only partially reported here, attempts answers to this question by using a matched-pair sample to compare firms in similar environmental conditions, but who differ in performance outcomes: one firm turns around, while another fails to do so. The study...
This paper examines a sample of firms who have reversed serious declining performance trends and identifies characteristics of the strategies used to turn performance around. A series of hypotheses on strategic and corporate failure, including several developed by Richards, Beaver, and Altman, are tested. Turnaround situations are defined in genera...
This paper suggests that Business Policy is generally thought of as a course, not a field of study, and that such thinking is a limitation to its development. A broader view of Business Policy is needed. We call that view Strategic Management. Our purpose is to first indicate the common view of Policy and then to show that Strategic Management, a w...