Managerial Knowledge, Expansion Trajectories, and Competitive Advantage Among Large Firms in the United States Paper Industry, 1973--1992

Results of empirical tests provide support for theoretical predictions that link attributes of the firm's top management team with the firm's capacity expansion path. Specifically, top management teams hiring managers from large firms, from large plants, and from slow-growth plants are likely to expand at above-average rates. Further, some evidence is found that a firm's capacity expansion path is related to the resource-based variables---particularly human resources, skills & capabilities, and product line expansion---that occupy managers' minds. The results provide a foundation on which to build the next step in linking capacity expansion paths with managerial knowledge - longitudinal investigation into the sources of managerial perceptions of key strategic variables that are found to affect capacity expansion paths.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Gorman, Philip Christopher

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas, Howard

• Business Administration, Management

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912238

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84599