Todd A. Morgan

The dark side of the entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation interplay: A new product development perspective

This article examines the dark side of the entrepreneurial orientation–market orientation interplay, and introduces consumer learning to the research stream. In a sample of 206 mid-sized manufacturing firms, the study shows that entrepreneurial orientation has a positive impact on new product development performance, but the effects are reduced when firms simultaneously implement a market orientation philosophy. While having both an entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation philosophy may hinder new product development performance, the article examines how a high market orientation may help reduce consumer learning and enhance the adoption of radical new products.

Impact of the Great Recession and Housing Collapse on the Forest Products Industry in the Western United States

The first decade of the Twenty-first Century proved tumultuous for the Wests A strong economy, low interest rates, easy access to credit, and real estate speculation fostered more than two million U.S. housing starts in 2005 and record lumber consumption from 2003 to 2005. With the decline in U.S. housing beginning in 2006, the 2008 global financial crisis, an over 50-year record low 554,000 housing starts in 2009, wood product prices and production fell dramatically. In 2009 and 2010, virtually every major western mill suffered curtailments and 30 large mills closed permanently. Sales value of wood and paper products in the West dropped from

Montana's forest products industry and timber harvest, 2004

49 billion in 2005 to

Idaho's Forest Products Industry: A Descriptive Analysis

34 billion in 2009. Employment declined by 71,000 workers and lumber production fell by almost 50 percent from 2005 to 2009. Capacity utilization at sawmills and other timber-using facilities in the West fell from over 80 percent in 2005 to just over 50 percent in 2009 and 2010. With the exception of exports and some paper markets, U.S. wood ...

Trends in lumber processing in the western United States. Part II: Overrun and lumber recovery factors.

This report traces the flow of Montana’s 2009 timber harvest through the primary wood-using industries; provides a description of the structure, capacity, and condition of Montana’s primary forest products industry; and quantifies volumes and uses of wood fiber. Historical wood products industry changes are discussed, as well as changes in harvest, production, employment, and sales.

Trends in Lumber Processing in the Western United States. Part I: Board Foot Scribner Volume per Cubic Foot of Timber

____________________________________ Morgan, Todd A.; Keegan, Charles E., III; Spoelma, Timothy P.; Dillon, Thale; Hearst, A. Lorin; Wagner, Francis G.; DeBlander, Larry T. Idaho’s forest products industry: a descriptive analysis. Resour. Bull. RMRS-RB-XXX. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 31 p. This report provides a description of the structure, capacity, and condition of Idaho’s primary forest products industry; traces the flow of Idaho’s 2001 timber harvest through the primary sectors; and quantifies volumes and uses of wood fiber. The economic contribution of the forest products industry to the State and historical industry changes are discussed, as well as trends in timber harvest, production, and sales.

Antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship in Iran: the role of strategic orientation and opportunity recognition

This article describes trends in three measures of lumber recovery for sawmills in the western United States: lumber overrun (LO), lumber recovery factor (LRF), and cubic lumber recovery (CLR). All states and regions showed increased LO during the last three decades. Oregon and Montana had the highest LO at 107 and 100 percent, respectively. Alaska had the lowest LO at 31 percent, followed by the Four Corners Region (i.e., Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah). Because sawmills in the western United States use the Scribner Log Rule (SLR) as the unit of log input, higher LO is not a clear indication that mills are using improved sawing technology and techniques. At best, LO is an imprecise measure of production efficiency. Better measures of lumber output per unit input include LRF and CLR. These measures are substantially better than LO because they are based on the cubic volume of solid wood fiber in a log, thus eliminating a number of the problems associated with the SLR. Oregon, followed by Washingt...

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Market Power and Opportunism in Networks

This article describes trends in board foot Scribner volume per cubic foot of timber for logs processed by sawmills in the western United States. Board foot to cubic foot (BF/CF) ratios for the period from 2000 through 2006 ranged from 3.70 in Montana to 5.71 in the Four Corners Region (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah). Sawmills in the Four Corners Region, Alaska, and California had the highest ratios, with each states BF/CF ratio greater than 5.0. Among the states using the Eastside Scribner scale, the Four Corners Region had the highest BF/CF ratio (5.71), followed by California (5.03). Among states using primarily the Westside Scribner scale, Alaska had the highest ratio (5.29). All states or regions, with the exception of Alaska, have shown declines in BF/CF ratios over the last three decades. Montana has had the largest estimated decline (29%), followed by Oregon (23%). The increase in Alaska was the smallest change among states (<2%). Two major factors in the western United States appear to...

Logging utilization in Idaho: Current and past trends

Abstract In a study of 130 Iranian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we predict and find that market orientation, learning orientation, and their interaction are positively related to opportunity recognition, which impacts firm-level corporate entrepreneurship positively. This study makes two important contributions to the corporate entrepreneurship literature. First, the majority of studies on corporate entrepreneurship concern western economies or China; as such, we broaden research on the international context of corporate entrepreneurship by examining a unique dataset of Iranian SMEs, which have grown significantly in recent years during their transition to knowledge-based enterprises. Second, we build upon previous literature on corporate entrepreneurship antecedents by explicating and testing the relationships of how and when learning orientation and market orientation affect opportunity recognition and the development of corporate entrepreneurship.

Changes in timber haul emissions in the context of shifting forest management and infrastructure

Purpose – This study aims to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation, firm market power and their interaction on opportunism in horizontal exchange networks. The aim is to investigate how entrepreneurial orientation and market power individually can lead to opportunism, but possessing both characteristics will mitigate such behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an analysis of 108 firms in 25 networks using a panel-corrected standard errors approach, the study tests hypotheses regarding how entrepreneurial orientation, firm market power and their interaction impact opportunism within a focal horizontal network. Findings – The results of the analysis show that entrepreneurial orientation and firm market power are both positively related to network opportunism, but when firms possess both characteristics, opportunism toward fellow network actors is mitigated. Research limitations/implications – Research on entrepreneurial orientation has primarily examined the positive outcomes of the st...