Russell Wayne Coff

Wisconsin School of Business

975 University Avenue

Madison, WI 53706

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

19

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Real Options Meet Organizational Theory: Coping with Path Dependencies, Agency Costs, and Organizational Form

Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 24, 333–361, 2007
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 May 2002 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff and Kevin Laverty
Wisconsin School of Business and University of Washington, Bothell - Department of Management
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Real options, Core Competencies, Resource-based view, Knowledge

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When Competitive Advantage Doesn't Lead to Performance: The Resource-Based View and Stakeholder Bargaining Power

Organization Science (10), 119-133, 1999
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff
Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 441 (143,233)
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Both Market and Hierarchy: An Incentive-System Theory of Hybrid Governance Forms

Academy of Management Review (34), 297-319
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Richard Makadok, Richard Makadok and Russell Wayne Coff
Purdue University - Department of ManagementEmory University - Department of Organization & Management and Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 332 (196,914)
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Navigating a Darwinian Process of Entrepreneurial Creativity: How Optimal Group Mood Differs for Generating and Selecting Creative Business Ideas

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 5, pp. 247-268, 2011
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Jill Perry-Smith and Russell Wayne Coff
Emory University - Goizueta Business School and Wisconsin School of Business
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Entrepreneurial creativity, group process

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Dynamic Capabilities, Social Capital, and Rent Appropriation: Ties that Split Pies

Strategic Management Journal (24), 677-686, 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 15 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff and Maureen Blyler
Wisconsin School of Business and Independent (Deceased)
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Dynamic Capabilities, Rent Appropriation, Social Capital

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Drilling for Micro-Foundations of Human Capital-Based Competitive Advantages

Journal of Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff and David Kryscynski
Wisconsin School of Business and Emory University - Department of Organization & Management
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Perceptions of Firm-Specific Human Capital: An empirical exploration

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Joseph Raffiee and Russell Wayne Coff
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Wisconsin School of Business
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Human capital, firm-specificity, micro-foundations

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Micro-Foundations of Firm-Specific Human Capital: When Do Employees Perceive Their Skills to be Firm-Specific?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
Joseph Raffiee and Russell Wayne Coff
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 165 (390,607)
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Firm-Specific Human Capital, Competitive Advantage

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How Buyers Cope with Uncertainty When Acquiring Firms in Knowledge-Intensive Industries: Caveat Emptor

Organization Science (10), 144-161, 1999
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff
Wisconsin School of Business
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Knowledge, Human capital, Mergers & Acquisitions

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The Co-Evolution of Rent Appropriation and Capability Development

Strategic Management Journal (31), 711-733, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff
Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 132 (469,517)
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5th Annual Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference Program

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 May 2008
Russell Wayne Coff, Richard Makadok and Richard Makadok
Wisconsin School of Business and Purdue University - Department of ManagementEmory University - Department of Organization & Management
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Managerial Foresight and Attempted Rent Appropriation: Insider Trading on Knowledge of Imminent Breakthroughs

Strategic Management Journal (26), 791-808, 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Gautam Ahuja, Russell Wayne Coff and Peggy M. Lee
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Wisconsin School of Business and Arizona State University (ASU) - Management Department
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Reading Tea Leaves Through a Warped Crystal Ball: How Experience and Divergence from Organizational Routines Influence Forecasts

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2013
Russell Wayne Coff, Rodolphe Durand and Violetta Gerasymenko
Wisconsin School of Business, HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy and HEC Paris
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Taking a Second Look in a Warped Crystal Ball: Explaining the Accuracy of Revised Forecast

Journal of Management Studies, May 6, 2016, HEC Paris Research Paper No. SPE-2016-1167
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Sep 2016
Violetta Gerasymenko, Russell Wayne Coff and Rodolphe Durand
HEC Paris, Wisconsin School of Business and HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy
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forecasting, syndication, value-adding commitment, venture capital

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Getting to 'Yes' When Acquiring Firms in Human Capital Intensive Industries: Medium of Exchange, Diversification Strategy, and Impasse

Journal of Management (28), 115-137, 2002
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jun 1997 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff
Wisconsin School of Business
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Bidding Wars Over R&D Intensive Firms: Knowledge, Opportunism and the Market for Corporate Control

Coff, R. (2003). Bidding Wars Over R&D Intensive Firms: Knowledge, Opportunism and the Market for Corporate Control. Academy of Management Journal (46), 74-85.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 05 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff
Wisconsin School of Business
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Knowledge, Opportunism, Competitive Advantage, Mergers & Acquisitions

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The Knowledge Leveraging Paradox: How to Scale Up Without Making Knowledge Imitable

Academy of Management Review (31), 452-465, 2006
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff, David Coff and Roger Eastvold
Wisconsin School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Insider Trading as a Vehicle to Appropriate Rent from R&D

Strategic Management Journal (24), 183-190, 2003
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Russell Wayne Coff and Peggy M. Lee
Wisconsin School of Business and Arizona State University (ASU) - Management Department
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Knowledge, Insider trading, Rent appropriation, Competitive advantage

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When Do Buyers and Targets Draw on Related Resources? A Test of Between-Firm Measures of Industry Relatedness in Acquisitions

Posted: 16 Jun 1997
Russell Wayne Coff and Donald E. Hatfield
Wisconsin School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute

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Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 233
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Re-Thinking Competitive Advantage from Human Capital: How the Concept of Firm-Specificity has Led Theorists Astray

Academy of Management Review (37), 376-395
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2012
Benjamin A. Campbell, Russell Wayne Coff and David Kryscynski
The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Wisconsin School of Business and Emory University - Department of Organization & Management
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