In the Internet economy, it is relatively easy to create new business models but difficult to keep deriving benefit from them in the long term. This article presents in-depth longitudinal data on four European Internet firms showing how companies can combine affiliation and lock-in strategies to...

In this article we examine how loose coupling between units and people can benefit a firm's ability to combine and recombine knowledge-based resources continuously in a creative and flexible way. An in-depth study of Oticon A/S suggests that loose coupling can be deliberately brought into the...