Edward Zajac

65 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4453-7147

Northwestern University

Publications

Competitive Dynamics Are Alive with the Sound of Music: A Reply to “Time to Face the Music” — Academy of Management Review 2026
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption — Academy of Management Review 2026
When the Principal Is the Firm’s Problem: Principal Costs and Their Corporate Governance Implications — Academy of Management Review 2026
Lost and Found in Translation: How Firms Use Anisomorphism to Manage the Institutional Complexity of CSR — Journal of Management Studies 2024
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures — Journal of Management Studies 2024
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions — Journal of International Business Studies 2022
How Inductive and Deductive Generalization Shape the Guilt-by-Association Phenomenon Among Firms: Theory and Evidence — Organization Science 2022
When Is a Governmental Mandate not a Mandate? Predicting Organizational Compliance Under Semicoercive Conditions — Journal of Management 2021
Strength and Weakness in Numbers? Unpacking the Role of Prevalence in the Diffusion of Reverse Mergers — Academy of Management Journal 2021
Last to Come and Last to Go? The Complex Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Reputational Penalties for Directors Linked to Corporate Fraud — Academy of Management Journal 2020
A Case of Evolutionary Mismatch? Why Facial Width-to-Height Ratio May Not Predict Behavioral Tendencies — Psychological Science 2019
The Cost of Status: When Social and Economic Interests Collide — Organization Science 2019
Thinking Broad and Deep: Why Some Directors Exert an Outsized Influence on Strategic Change — Organization Science 2019
On the Relationship Between Firms and Their Legal Environment: The Role of Cultural Consonance — Organization Science 2019
On the duality of political and economic stakeholder influence on firm innovation performance: Theory and evidence from Chinese firms — Strategic Management Journal 2018
Collaborative by Design? How Matrix Organizations See/Do Alliances — Organization Science 2018
Alliance or Acquisition? A Mechanisms-Based, Policy-Capturing Analysis — Strategic Management Journal 2017
Strategic Alliance Structures — Journal of Management 2016
How exploitation impedes and impels exploration: Theory and evidence — Strategic Management Journal 2016
When do firms change technology-sourcing vehicles? The role of poor innovative performance and financial slack — Strategic Management Journal 2016
Venture Capital Ownership as a Contingent Resource: How Owner–Firm Fit Influences IPO Outcomes — Academy of Management Journal 2016
Connecting the Dots: Bringing External Corporate Governance into the Corporate Governance Puzzle — Academy of Management Annals 2015 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Unmixed signals: How reputation and status affect alliance formation — Strategic Management Journal 2014
Under Construction: How Commensuration and Management Fashion Affect Corporate Reputation Rankings — Organization Science 2014
When Do Outsider CEOs Generate Strategic Change? The Enabling Role of Corporate Stability — Journal of Management Studies 2013
A Behavioral Theory of Corporate Governance: Explicating the Mechanisms of Socially Situated and Socially Constituted Agency — Academy of Management Annals 2013
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World — Academy of Management Annals 2012 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Prospectives section of Strategic Management Journal — Strategic Management Journal 2012
Where can capabilities come from? network ties and capability acquisition in business groups — Strategic Management Journal 2011
Made to Fit: How Practices Vary As They Diffuse — Academy of Management Review 2010
Control, collaboration, and productivity in international joint ventures: theory and evidence — Strategic Management Journal 2009
New Directions in Corporate Governance Research — Organization Science 2008
Alliance or acquisition? a dyadic perspective on interfirm resource combinations — Strategic Management Journal 2007
The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving Via Framing and Decoupling — Academy of Management Journal 2006
Status Evolution and Competition: Theory and Evidence — Academy of Management Journal 2005
The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions — American Sociological Review 2004
The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The (Non)adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms — Administrative Science Quarterly 2004
Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm — Strategic Management Journal 2004
The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions — American Sociological Review 2004
Reply to Zuckerman: Should Sociological Theories Venture into “Economic Territory?” Yes! — American Sociological Review 2004
The strategy/governance structure fit relationship: theory and evidence in franchising arrangements — Strategic Management Journal 2004
Decoupling Policy from Practice: The Case of Stock Repurchase Programs — Administrative Science Quarterly 2001
When will boards influence strategy? inclination × power = strategic change — Strategic Management Journal 2001
How Organizational Resources Affect Strategic Change and Performance in Turbulent Environments: Theory and Evidence — Organization Science 2001
Modeling the dynamics of strategic fit: a normative approach to strategic change — Strategic Management Journal 2000
Commentary on ‘procedural justice, strategic decision making and the knowledge economy’ by W. C. Kim and R. Mauborgne — Strategic Management Journal 1998
Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs — Academy of Management Journal 1996
SMJ 1994 best paper prize to Birger Wernerfelt — Strategic Management Journal 1995
SMJ 1993 best paper award to Phahalad and Bettis — Strategic Management Journal 1995
The Costs and Benefits of Managerial Incentives and Monitoring in Large U.S. Corporations: When is More not Better? — Strategic Management Journal 1994
Competitive Organizational Behavior: Toward an Organizationally-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage — Strategic Management Journal 1994
FROM TRANSACTION COST TO TRANSACTIONAL VALUE ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES* — Journal of Management Studies 1993
A diametric forces model of strategic change: Assessing the antecedents and consequences of restructuring in the higher education industry — Strategic Management Journal 1993
The effect of agents and mediators on negotiation outcomes — Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1992
New Organizational Forms for Enhancing Innovation: The Case of Internal Corporate Joint Ventures — Management Science 1991
Intraorganizational Power and Organizational Design: Reconciling Rational and Coalitional Models of Organization — Organization Science 1991
BLIND SPOTS IN INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS OF INTERFIRM (MIS)PERCEPTIONS FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS — Academy of Management Review 1991
Beyond Dyadic Exchange: Functional Interdependence and Sub-unit Power — Organization Studies 1990
Ceo selection, succession, compensation and firm performance: A theoretical integration and empirical analysis — Strategic Management Journal 1990
Perceptual and Archival Measures of Miles and Snow's Strategic Types: A Comprehensive Assessment of Reliability and Validity — Academy of Management Journal 1990
Changing generic strategies: Likelihood, direction, and performance implications — Strategic Management Journal 1989
Internal corporate joint ventures: Development processes and performance outcomes — Strategic Management Journal 1988
Interlocking Directorates as An Interorganizational Strategy: A Test of Critical Assumptions — Academy of Management Journal 1988
Structural and Perceptual Influences on Intraindustry Stratification — Academy of Management Journal 1987
Ceo change and firm performance in large corporations: Succession effects and manager effects — Strategic Management Journal 1987