Prior studies report mixed evidence on the impact of customers’ bargaining power on supplier performance. We shed light on this mixed evidence by considering the moderating role of strategic fit. A strategically aligned supplier can provide long-term benefits to the customer. As a result,...

We examine the relationship between the deployment of broadband, which we classify as a general purpose technology, and the productivity of the deploying firms using panel data that comprises information on all the major local exchange carriers in the United States telecommunications industry...

The advantages and disadvantages of diversification have been debated ad nausem by academics as well as business professionals, with the current consensus appearing to be that diversification destroys value. The effect of overall diversification (with no further refinement as to whether such...