题目：Strategic Resource Decisions to Enhance the Performance of Global Engineering Services

报告人：英国伯明翰大学 张涛 博士

报告时间：2017年12月26日(周二)上午10:00

地点：管理楼305会议室

报告摘要：

This paper extends our understanding of the internationalisation and firm performance (I-FP) relationship of service firms by considering the influence of strategic decisions on three types of slack resources. The research focusses on an important type of service operations? global engineering services, which are a major part of the global economy and represent a distinctive business model in the contemporary business environment. In doing so, we theorise the I-FP relationship by addressing the knowledge-intensive, project-based and people-centric features of engineering service firms (ESFs); and test the relationship with a carefully assembled dataset containing 12 years’ data from 242 ESFs. We identify a negative overall I-FP relationship, i.e. ESFs’ international expansion leads to worse financial performance in general. The presence of slack resources explains why such a result exists. Our findings have significant implications, both for future research on internationalisation and performance and for firms to effectively deploy their resources to support global service operations in a strategic manner.

报告人简介：

张涛博士现任伯明翰大学商学院助理教授,曾任诺丁汉大学计算机学院智能建模与分析研究小组研究员，2011年获得剑桥大学嘉治商学院博士学位，研究领域主要为：能源、环境与创新管理。张涛博士为国际期刊Journal of Cleaner Production编委会成员，曾在Journal of Product Innovation Management,International Business Review,Energy and Buildings, Energy Policy,Journal of Business Research,Applied Energy,Energy Policy等国际期刊上发表十余篇论文。Normal07.8 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONE

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