target firm’s embedded ties in acquisitions. We identify four critical areas - communication, idiosyncratic investments … and institutional forces, power asymmetries and competition in the dynamics of embedded ones. Finally, we encourage theory …

.S. Using a sample of 91 mergers in the period 1982-2003 we document several distinctive features of this market in Japan. First …, we show that in stark contrast to the pro-cyclical U.S. merger waves, mergers in Japan tend to be counter-cyclical, both … the U.S. experience, we find that a significant fraction of Japanese mergers are orchestrated by the main banks; in such …

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based … current managerial challenges. In this paper we research innovation in twenty project based firms. We identify three key areas … of innovation from the theoretical literature and conduct empirical research, discovering (1) whether project based firms …

to an organization’s innovation. …

paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that …