Exploration-exploitation research to date has understudied the issue of multiple performance dimensions and their potential trade-offs, which leaves the application of its theory to the context of start-ups exposed to blind spots. The importance of acquisition likelihood as a performance outcome...

Do the benefits of agglomeration-based spillovers create a bigger impact for firms than the technical know-how obtained through inter-firm collaboration? I use the universe of micro, small and medium-sized firms in India to classify firms in three categories--those inside a cluster (Treatment...

In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets using the context of the Information Security Market (ISM)....

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

Alliances for new product development have been studied extensively in the operations management literature. Alliances between an innovator and a partner create value by utilizing their complementary capabilities. In this paper, we seek to understand what drives the alliance structure: The...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the existence of initial capacities within the host partners and the International joint-venture (IJV) performance. Three hypotheses were proposed. We suppose that the IJV firms have specific initial capacities compared to a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish a link between procurement process coordination (PPC) and firm performance. To allow for greater understanding in the field of supply chain management, the present study looked into the coordination between the construction firms and their...

The paper examines the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank Enterprise Survey panel data for the Philippines...