Research
Karel Cool has published extensively on questions related to competitive positioning (e.g. sustainability of competitive advantage; first mover advantage; market share; business models / strategic groups), industry dynamics (e.g. industry overcapacity, supply chain power and profit dynamics; customer churn and entry in markets), and European...
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Articles & Book Chapters
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Karel Cool, Christophe Angoulvant, Brian Rogers, “Insurintechs: Threat or opportunity for Insurance Incumbents” The World Financial Review, May 2018
Dierickx, I., K. Cool and L. Almeida Costa, “The Dynamics of Resource Erosion”, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, M. Auger and D. Teece Eds, August 2014.
Cool, K., I. Dierickx and L. Almeida Costa, “Asset Mass Efficiencies”, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, M. Auger and D. Teece Eds, October 2013.
Cool, K., I. Dierickx and L. Almeida Costa, "Diseconomies of Time Compression", Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, M. Auger and D. Teece Eds, October 2013.
Almeida Costa, L., K. Cool, I. Dierickx, "The Competitive Implications of the Deployment of Unique Resources", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 34, 4 (April 2013), 445-463.
Cool, K. and P. Paranikas, “Achieve Market Success by Leveraging Customer Turnover,” European Financial Review, April 2012.
Cool, K. and P. Paranikas, “When Every Customer is a New Customer. High turnover markets offer big opportunities to win share. Here’s how to do it”, Harvard Business Review, May 2011.
Cool, K. and D. Schendel (1987), "Strategic Group Formation and Performance: The Case of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1963–1982"; Cool, K. and I. Dierickx (1993), "Rivalry, Strategic Groups and Firm Profitability" and Pacheco de Almeida, G., J. Henderson and K. Cool (2008), “Resolving the commitment versus flexibility trade-off: The role of resource accumulation lags”, in Competitive Strategy, C. Maritan and M. Peteraf, eds., Edward Elgar, 2011.
Henderson, J. and K. Cool, “Experience and Learning in Wine Supply Chain Negotiations”, Supply Chain Forum, An International Journal, Special Issue: Wine Supply Chains, 2010.
Cool, K. and D. Schendel, “Strategic Group Formation and Performance: The Case of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1963-82”, in Michael Porter: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, Wood, J. C., & Wood, M. C. (Eds), 2009, New York, NY: Routledge.
Pacheco de Almeida, G., J. Henderson and K. Cool, “Resolving the commitment versus flexibility trade-off: The role of resource accumulation lags”, Academy of Management Journal (June 2008).
Cool, K. and D. Schendel, “Performance Differences Among Strategic Groups”, in Fundamentals of Business Strategy, Mie Augier and David J. Teece , SAGE Publications, London, December 2007.
Cool, K. and J. Henderson, "Maintaining Common Assets, Tragedy of the Commons and Supply Chain Performance" in K. Cool, J. Henderson and R. Abate, Restructuring Strategy, SMS Book Series. Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Cool, K. and I. Dierickx, “Rivalry, Strategic Groups and Firm Profitability”,(1993) and Dierickx, I., and K. Cool, “Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage” (1989), J. Birkinshaw, Ed., Strategic Management, Edward Elgar, 2004.
Henderson, J. and K. Cool, "Learning to Time Capacity Expansions: An Empirical Analysis of the Worldwide Petrochemical Industry, 1975-1995", Strategic Management Journal 25, N° 5 (May 2003) 393-414.
Henderson, J. and K. Cool, "Corporate Governance, Investment Bandwagons and Overcapacity: An Empirical Study of the Worldwide Petrochemical Industry, 1975-1995", Strategic Management Journal 24, N° 4 (April 2003) 349-374.
Dierickx, I. and K. Cool, “Asset stock accumulation and the sustainability of competitive advantage” (1989), in The Economics of Business Strategy, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, J. Kay, Edward Elgar, 2003.
Cool, K., L. Almeida Costa, and I. Dierickx, “Constructing competitive advantage”, in The Handbook of Strategy and Management by A. Pettigrew and H. Thomas (eds.), Sage, London 2002.
Cool, K. “La Durabilité des Ressources”, in Le Management Stratégique des Compétences by Bertrand Quelin (HEC) and Jean-Luc Arrègle (EDHEC), Ed, Ellipses, March 2000.
Cool, K., L.H. Röller and B. Leleux, “The Relative Impact of Actual and Potential Rivalry on Firm Profitability in the Pharmaceutical Industry”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 1-14, 1999.
Cool, K. and J. Henderson, “Power and Firm Profitability in Supply Chains. French Manufacturing Industry in 1993”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 19, pp. 909-926, 1998.
Cool, K, “Commentary on ‘Procedural Justice, Strategic Decision Making and the Knowledge Economy” by W. C. Kim and R. Mauborgne, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 19, pp.339-341, 1998.
Cool, K., I. Dierickx and G. Szulanski, “Diffusion of Innovations within Organizations: Electronic Switching in the Bell System, 1971-1982”, Organization Science, Vol 8, No. 5, pp. 543-559, September-October 1997.
Dierickx, I., and K. Cool, “Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage”, (1989) in Resources, Firms and Strategies, N.J. Foss, ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Cool, K. and J. Henderson, “Factor and Regression Analysis, Power and Profits in Supply Chains”, in Statistical Models for Strategic Management, M. Ghertman, J. Obadia and J.-L. Arrègle: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Cool, K., “Het Concurrentievermogen van de Europese Industrie”, Management Jaarboek 1997, Roularta Books & Vlaamse Management Associatie vzw, 1997.
Cool, K. and I. Dierickx, “Commentary on : ‘Investments in Strategic Assets: Industry and Firm-Level Perspectives’” by P. Shoemaker and R. Amit, Advances in Strategic Management, Vol 10 - Part A, pp. 35-44, P. Shrivastava, A. Huff and J. Dutton, eds, JAI Press Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut; London, England, 1994.
Dierickx, I. and K. Cool, “Competitive Strategy, Asset Accumulation and Firm Performance”, in Strategic Groups, Strategic Moves and Performance, H. Daems and H. Thomas, eds, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 63-80, 1994.
Cool, K., I. Dierickx and R. Martens, “Asset Stocks, Strategic Groups and Rivalry”, in Strategic Groups, Strategic Moves and Performance, H. Daems and H. Thomas, eds, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 219-234, 1994.
Cool, K. and I. Dierickx, “Determinanten van R&D Resultaten: De Farmaceutische Industrie in de US, Europa en Japan, 1940-89”, in Strategisch Bekeken ... Liber Amicorum Prof. Dr. André Van Cauwenbergh, R. Martens, ed., Mys & Breesch, Uitgevers, 1994.
Cool, K. and I. Dierickx, “Rivalry, Strategic Groups and Firm Profitability”, Strategic Management Journal , Vol. 14, pp.47-59, January 1993.
Cool, K. and I. Dierickx, “Assessing Innovative Activity: The Pharmaceutical Industry, 1940-89”, in Managing Technology and Innovation for Corporate Renewal, Y. Doz, ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cool, K., “Dynamics of European Industrial Restructuring”, in European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s, Cool, K., D. Neven and I. Walter, eds, London: Macmillan, pp. 1-22, 1992.
Cool, K. and L. Gabel, “Industry Restructuring Through Alliances: Open Systems and the European Mainframe Computer Industry”, in European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s, Cool, K., D. Neven and I. Walter, eds, London: Macmillan, pp. 357-380, 1992.
Desarbo, W., K. Jedidi, K. Cool and D. Schendel, “Simultaneous Multidimensional Unfolding and Cluster Analysis: An Investigation of Strategic groups”, Marketing Letters, pp. 129-146, April 1991.
Cool, K and I. Dierickx, “Een 'resource' - perspectief op concurrentiestrategie”, Economisch en Sociaal Tijdschrift, No 4, pp. 533-552, 1990.
Woo, C. and K. Cool, “The Impact of Strategic Management on Systematic Risk”, in Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 6, B. Lamb and P. Shrivastava, eds, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press Inc., pp. 51-69, 1990.
Cool, K., I. Dierickx and D. Jemison, “Business Strategy, Market Structure and Risk-Return Relationships: A Structural Approach”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 10, pp. 507-522, November-December 1989.
Dierickx, I., and K. Cool, “Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage”, Management Science, Vol 35, No 12, pp. 1504-1510, December 1989.
Schendel, D. and K. Cool, “Development of the Strategic Management Field: Some Accomplishments and Challenges”, in Strategic Management Frontiers, J. Grant, ed, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, pp. 17-31, 1989.
Cool, K. and D. Schendel, “Performance Differences Among Strategic Group Members”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 207-223, May-June 1988.
Cool, K. and D. Schendel, “Strategic Group Formation and Performance: The Case of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1963-82”, Management Science, Vol. 33, No 9, pp. 1102-1124, September 1987.
Cool, K. and C. Lengnick-Hall, “Second Thoughts on the Transferability of the Japanese Management System”, Organization Studies, No 1, pp. 1-22, 1985.
Van Cauwenbergh, A. and K. Cool, “Strategic Management in a New Framework”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 245-264, 1982.
Van Cauwenbergh, A. and K. Cool, “Change, Logic, Power and Symbols: An Analysis of the Management of Change”, Economisch en Sociaal Tijdscrift, pp. 677-697, December 1979.
Cool, K. en W. Moesen, “The Stabilization Performance of Belgian Fiscal Policy, 1956-1977”, Economisch en Sociaal Tijdschrift, pp. 161-176, April 1979.
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Books
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Ajami, R., K. Cool, J. Goddard and D. Khanbata, International Business, 2nd edition, M.E. Sharpe, New York, 2006
Cool, K., J. Henderson and R. Abate, Restructuring Industry, Basil Blackwell, 2005
Cool, K., D. Neven and I. Walter, eds, European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s, London: Macmillan, 1992.
Contact
Karel Cool
Professor of Strategic Management
BP Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness
INSEAD Europe Campus
Boulevard de Constance
77305 Fontainebleau
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 60 72 48 05
Email: [email protected]