intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

-taking, operating performance and innovation activity of superstars' competitors as potential channels for this positive performance … potentially increases their rent seeking profits. In the third paper, Are There Peer Effects In Innovation?, we investigate how … companies react to their peers' innovation activities, such as new patents. Exploiting exogenous …

tensions, they often tend to fall back on individuals. In particular for middle managers, combining the maintenance of legacy … and interrelated with local institutional contexts. This dissertation seeks to understand how managers constructively deal … corporate structure. As a central argument, managers rely on practices that mirror the external ambiguity, resulting from both …