In the mid 1990s India's Tata Motors Ltd. entered the passenger car business after having prospered for more than 40 years as a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Based on archival data and on expert interviews the paper analyses the resource acquisition and internationalisation strategies and...

In the mid 1990s India's Tata Motors Ltd. entered the passenger car business after having prospered for more than 40 years as a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Based on archival data and on expert interviews the paper analyses the resource acquisition and internationalisation strategies and...

This primer is intended to serve as a background text for a 'platform chapter' in Bachelor or Master level courses on Strategic Management. While the 'traditional firm' can be described as a value-adding chain (Pipeline), platform businesses 'invert' production and consumption to the outside and...

This is the 100th issue of the IMB Working Papers. It contains three short papers on the series itself. The first paper takes stock of the history, content and relevance of the IMB Working Paper Series. It analyses the first 100 issues of the series in detail (Dörrenbächer in this volume, pp....

This primer is intended to serve as a background text for a 'platform chapter' in Bachelor or Master level courses on Strategic Management. While the 'traditional firm' can be described as a value-adding chain (Pipeline), platform businesses 'invert' production and consumption to the outside and...