From resource allocation to strategy

By J. L. Bower, Clark G. Gilbert. 2005

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Resource Allocation and Strategy (2017, background): “There are also books and monographs reporting major resource allocation field studies, including Bower’s (1970) seminal work (see also Bromiley, 1986; Butler et al., 1993), and book chapters on the topic (see Bower & Gilbert, 2005).”
Strategic leadership in organizational crises: A review and research agenda (2021, background): “…includes central tasks of strategic leadership, e.g., signal detection (Pearson and Clair, 1998), resource allocation under high levels of uncertainty and time pressure (Bower and Gilbert, 2005), and communication with internal and external stakeholders (Coombs, 2007; Waller and Younger, 2017).”
The Resource-Based View, Resourcefulness, and Resource Management in Startup Firms: A Proposed Research Agenda (2021, background): “These variations can influence their monitoring of entrepreneurs as they use resources to pursue their goals (Fitza et al., 2009). This may create serious tensions in the relationships of these providers and the entrepreneurs whose cognitions, experiences, and priorities might affect their valuation”
Dynamic Decision Making: A Model of Senior Leaders Managing Strategic Paradoxes (2014, background): “…resulted in eight types of issue, which I clustered into three categories that emerged from the literature: (1) resource allocation (i.e., Bower & Gilbert, 2005) including issues of allocating (a) financial resources, (b) human resources, such as engineers and sales people, and (c) time…”
Information Technology Governance in Information Technology Investment Decision Processes: The Impact of Investment Characteristics, External Environment, and Internal Context (2008, background): “…Sharfman 1996), letting functional managers initiate IT investment proposals contributes to the alignment between business needs and IT investments (Bower and Gilbert 2005), and decreasing the number of decision participants can shorten the organization's response time to external threats and…”
The Architecture and Design of Organizational Capabilities (2006, unknown): “Issues of firm structure, of mechanisms of resource allocation, and of different types of organizing can come to the fore, through an examination of how architecture within an organization affects structure and the evolution of firm-level prospects (Bower and Gilbert, 2005).”
Change in the Presence of Residual Fit: Can Competing Frames Coexist? (2006, background): “Examples include Duncan’s (1976) observations on organic and mechanistic structures, Nelson and Winter’s (1982) routines and switching routines, and Brown and Eisenhardt’s (1997) research on tightly and loosely coupled organizations.”