This paper suggests a coevolutionary analysis of the relationship between heterogeneity and firm performance advocating a more dynamic view of the development of strategic heterogeneity. Drawing on previous enquiries in behavioral and evolutionary economics of heterogeneity and performance, it...

Extant strategic management studies usually couple the intensification in the globalization of best business practices to the growing of the specific capabilities needed to transfer business knowledge between or among firms and to implement those practices locally (Hansen, 1999, 2002; Kostova, 1999;...

We advance an image of coopetition as a synthesis of the two alternative paradigms developed in the literature about the nature of the interdependences among firms; i.e., the competitive paradigm versus the cooperative paradigm. The competitive paradigm postulates divergent interest-based...