Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors and Affiliations -- Part I. Introduction to the Resource Allocation Process -- 1. Linking Resource Allocation to Strategy -- 2. Modeling the Resource Allocation Process -- 3. The Role of Strategy Making in Organizational Evolution -- 4. Anomaly-Seeking Research: Thirty Years of Theory Development in Resource Allocation Theory -- Part II. When the Bottom-up Process Fails -- 5. When the Bottom-up Resource Allocation Process Fails -- 6. Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms -- 7. No Exit: The Failure of Bottom-up Strategic Processes and the Role of Top-down Disinvestment -- 8. The Process of International Expansion: Comparing Established Firms and Entrepreneurial Start-ups -- Part III. Restoring the Bottom-up Process -- 9. Restoring the Bottom-up Process of Resource Allocation -- 10. Strategy Making as an Iterated Process of Resource Allocation -- 11. Beyond Resource Allocation: How Definition and Impetus Interact to Shape Strategic Outcomes -- Part IV. The Need for Top-down Intervention -- 12. Corporate Intervention in Resource Allocation -- 13. The Entrepreneurial M-Form: A Case Study of Strategic Integration in a Global Media Company -- 14. Strategic Flexibility: Corporate-level Real Options as a Response to Uncertainty in the Pursuit of Strategic Integration -- 15. Resource Allocation Processes in Multidimensional Organizations: MNCs and Alliances -- Part V. Outside Commentaries on the RAP Perspective -- 16. Resource Allocation, Strategy, and Organization: An Economist's Thoughts -- 17. Comments on the Resource Allocation Process -- 18. Research Complementarities: A Resource-Based View of the Resource Allocation Process Model (and Vice Versa) -- 19. CEO as Change Agent? -- Part VI. Conclusion.

20. A Revised Model of the Resource Allocation Process -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.