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Richard J Arend

University of Southern Maine [Bean/Surace Chair in STR][Strategic Uncertainty, On Theory …
Verified email at maine.edu
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Assessing the dynamic capabilities view: spare change, everyone?

RJ Arend, P Bromiley - Strategic organization, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, concepts and models addressing this question have increasingly clustered around
the dynamic capabilities view (DCV). Citation counts suggest that the DCV is the new …

Effectuation as ineffectual? Applying the 3E theory-assessment framework to a proposed new theory of entrepreneurship

RJ Arend, H Sarooghi, A Burkemper - Academy of management …, 2015 - journals.aom.org
… Richard Arend gratefully acknowledges financial support from a Kemper Research Grant. …
Richard Arend gratefully acknowledges financial support from a Kemper Research Grant. …

Small business and supply chain management: is there a fit?

RJ Arend, JD Wisner - Journal of business venturing, 2005 - Elsevier
Conflict exists over how supply chain management (SCM) affects small- and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs). On one hand, SCM can provide quality, cost, customer service, leverage …

The business model: Present and future—beyond a skeumorph

RJ Arend - Strategic Organization, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this essay, we address the research question of when is the business model idea useful?
We argue that the use of the term “business model” as a “description” of how a traditional …

Entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities: how firm age and size affect the 'capability enhancement–SME performance'relationship

RJ Arend - Small Business Economics, 2014 - Springer
The entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities literature adds to our understanding of how
strategic change can drive firm performance. We draw on a recent survey of US SMEs to …

Is the resource-based view a practical organizational theory?

RJ Arend, M Lévesque - Organization Science, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
We explore the question of whether the resource-based view (RBV) is a practical theory for
managers. We test the ability of the RBV to provide two pieces of practical information: (1) the …

SME–supplier alliance activity in manufacturing: contingent benefits and perceptions

RJ Arend - Strategic Management Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We address the following two questions: how upstream vertical alliance (UVA) activity
affects the performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs); and how SME …

Strategic planning as a complex and enabling managerial tool

RJ Arend, YL Zhao, M Song, S Im - Strategic Management …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Arend served as the corresponding author until the acceptance of the article. All authors
contributed equally to this manuscript and are listed in random order. The authors wish to …

Social and environmental performance at SMEs: Considering motivations, capabilities, and instrumentalism

RJ Arend - Journal of Business Ethics, 2014 - Springer
Our analysis of recent survey data of US small- and medium-sized enterprises explores the
question of how these entrepreneurial ventures can do well by doing good—ie, how they can …

Revisiting the logical and research considerations of competitive advantage

RJ Arend - Strategic Management Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This commentary addresses the main points made in the recent article by TC Powell on the
logical and philosophical flaws in the main thesis of strategy research. Each one of Powell's …