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The scope of the activities performed by the platform sponsor vis-à-vis the complementors is one of the key decisions that platform sponsors must continually make. Yet, the implications of alternative scope decisions are not well understood. This article delves deeper into platform sponsors’...
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Though the burgeoning literature on platform ecosystems has sought to understand different aspects of this emerging phenomenon, the different types of ecosystems are treated in a somewhat homogenous manner. In this paper, we fill this gap and provide an organizing framework to examine the...
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Though the burgeoning literature on platform ecosystem has sought to understand different aspects of this emerging phenomenon, the topic of ecosystem emergence has not received enough attention. In this paper, we identify the conditions under which ecosystems emerge and explain why they emerge...
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This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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An application of Capabilities-Driven Strategy to upstream E&P. As the industry evolves, so too must E&P strategies, portfolios, organizational capabilities, and operating models – capabilities must be enhanced, workflows streamlined, and productivity optimized, through broad operating model...
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We examine the rise of cloud computing and AI in China and their impacts on industry dynamics after the shock to the cost of Internet-based computing power and services. We find that cloud computing is associated with an increase in firm entry, exit and the likelihood of M&A in industries that...
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This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979391
Identifying the major driving factors behind variations in profitability across firms is a question addressed by many … have shown that profitability variation across firms and industries, is the norm, rather the exception. The paper … investigates the factors underlying the profitability of Romanian companies in the ICT sector within the company …
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Companies in France benefited from the economic recovery in 2010 and generated higher profit levels. But this improvement did not offset the declines of the two previous years and significant disparities persist.
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This paper examines the influence of a firm’s business model on the relative persistence of profit margins in the U.S. airline industry. The strategic management literature describes a firm’s business model as reflecting how that firm chooses to compete in the marketplace. Given this linkage...
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