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This section presents abstracts of conference papers related to business policy and strategy. These include "Competitive Advantage in Transition Economies: Exploring Organizational Capacity for Change," discussing competitive advantage in developed countries, "A Changing of the Guard: Executive and Director Turnover Following Corporate Earnings Restatements," on corporate earnings restatements, and "Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Alliance Formation: A Multidimensional Perspective."

Superior organizational performance depends on employees sharing sensitive information--including sharing mistakes and seeking feedback for improvement. Much of the literature has focused on cognitive and social factors that influence knowledge sharing; we focus on perceived organizational emotions that influence sharing sensitive information at work. We explore, specifically, the effects of what we call positive organizational approach emotions--employees' perceived organizational hope, pride, and empathy--on registered nurses' actual behaviors in sharing mistakes with their peers and seeking feedback for improvement in a hospital. Our research advances the emotion-based perspectives of the behavioral strategy literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]