Junge Technologieunternehmen kooperieren mit Wettbewerbern, um Zugang zu Informationen, Ressourcen, Märkten und Technologien (Gulati et al., 2000) zu erlangen und komplementäre Ressourcen zu internalisieren (Hamel, 1991). Sie nutzen die spezifischen Synergien ähnlicher Wissensbasen und...

Die Zunahme des Outsourcinganteils ?ber die gesamte Lieferantenstruktur hat in vielen Branchen dazu gef?hrt, dass gro?e, komplexe Liefernetze entstanden sind. Hat es fr?her ausgereicht, die direkten Lieferanten zu kontrollieren, so muss die Beschaffungsfunktion heute ganze Liefernetze...

Die Arbeit befaßt sich mit den Veränderungen der Markt- und Firmenstruktur in der Pharma- und Biotechindustrie. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Biotechfirmen, Allianzen zwischen Biotech- und Pharmaunternehmen, Konzentrationstendenzen sowie die Integration...

Evidence suggests that public research universities, especially land grant institutions, can be instrumental in supporting a new kind of economic vitality. The university can serve as a ready pipeline for discovering, and then commercializing, new knowledge for industries. Meanwhile, companies...

Accessing and exploiting organizational resources plays an integral role in not only a firm’s propensity to achieve a competitive advantage, but also its mere survival in a competitive environment (Ulrich & Barney, 1984). One of the most common means of resource acquisition for both large...

Abstract Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the forestry plantation area in Australia by the year 2020. Government subsidies and extension for plantation establishment have largely disappeared, hence forestry expansion is highly dependent on access to private finance....

Hotel industry is characterized as one of the oldest, diverse, innovative, and important industries around the world. Given the low entry barriers for global markets, it is also highly attractive, and its greatest growth happens on international level. Hotel chains are the leaders in hotel...

This paper provides theory and evidence examining the importance of information transfers in international trade. Information is modeled as an endogenous fixed cost of trade that enters as input into market-specific product appeal. Differences in bilateral communication costs, information...

Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand, who must place orders before knowing the resolution of demand uncertainty. We provide a model in...