This paper identifies firm-level competitive activity, one of the key units of analysis in competitive dynamics research, as the fundamental mediation between corporate governance and firm-level financial performance. By employing the "Motivation-Capability" logic embodied in the competitive...

The innovative knowledge created by firms that ultimately exit their industries represents a source of technology that existing firms may build on. However, no empirical work has examined if such knowledge dies with an innovating firm or if significant diffusion of knowledge occurs even after a...

In this paper, we explore (a) the requirements of business users of mobile devices in relation with user tasks and user mobility, and (b) the relationship of the extent to which user-indicated technology requirements are met by user-perceived technology performance (fit), and overall user...

The current neoclassical synthesis of economic theory does not contain a role for the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial activity. In this paper we argue that such a role can be reintroduced into the economic foundations of strategy by adopting a subjectivist theory of entrepreneurship. A...

Firms benefit from participating in a consortium in two ways: from the final products and from the cooperation process. We define the latter as process benefits, which include both inter-organizational learning benefits and social capital benefits. This paper examines the drivers of these two...

We examine how three aspects of network structure affect supplier performance, focusing on relationship duration, supplier autonomy, and customer status. We examine their impact in different competitive contexts by considering differences in the modular and architectural technological...

An emerging problem-finding and problem-solving approach suggests that management's discovering problems to solve, opportunities to seize, and challenges to respond to, are vital to organizations. This paper explores the extent to which the problem-finding and problem-solving approach can...

In the extant vertical integration literature, the question of how the firm's portfolio of outsourced work is managed across suppliers has been relatively understudied. We seek to advance this area of research by examining factors that influence how concentrated the firm's outsourcing is among...

This paper suggests that due to the changing nature of the firm, viewing shareholders as the sole residual claimants is an increasingly tenuous description of the actual relationships among a corporation's various stakeholders. Examining the corporation from a (team production) property rights...

This paper addresses modularity as a basis for organizing economic activity. We first define the key concepts of architecture and of modularity as a special form of architecture. We then suggest how modular systems of all types may exhibit several properties of fundamental importance to the...