Spanish Abstract: Las alianzas tecnológicas entre organizaciones intensivas en conocimiento enfrentan desafíos relativos a la eficiencia de la vinculación, su efectividad, su duración e incluso al impacto esperado en la innovación; además, algunas de ellas son desconocidas de forma...

In this article, I develop the concept of "ownership piercing." I use the expression to suggest that courts engage in a process of evaluative reasoning to clarify who owns property rights and controls the limited liability company. I show under what circumstances courts should pierce ownership....

The paper examines the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank Enterprise Survey panel data for the Philippines...

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...

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...

In the pharmaceutical industry, firms frequently engage in licensing agreements to overcome innovation challenges and keep up with the pace of developing new drugs. Licensing helps firms jointly develop new drugs and acquire external knowledge, which helps improve their internal drug development...

The US apparel industry employed over 1 million workers as late as 1980, but today it employs only about one-third of that number. The common explanation for this collapse is the delocalization of production to low wage countries, but this neglects advantages of speed, flexibility and proximity...

Our study puts special attention to the fact that R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry are formed at different stages throughout the drug development process. We study if the timing to engage in R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry has different impacts on the technology...

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...