In this article, we consider technology leaders (which are innovators) and technology followers (which are non-innovators) to provide a new theoretical explanation for the well-cited empirical evidence of an inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a...

We show that even if information transmission through an honest outside agency is not possible due to the possibility of collusion between the firms and the outside agency, information transmission is still possible through technology licensing. However, unlike the case of a cost-free honest...

Organizational ambidexterity wurde kürzlich als "heisses Thema" innerhalb der Strategieforschung bezeichnet (Birkinshaw and Gupta, 2014: 2). Es definiert sich als die Fähigkeit einer Firma gleichzeitig exploration und exploitation durchzuführen (Gupta et al., 2006) und hat sich als "neues...