Firms need to access skills, capital, and customers to enter into an industry initially, and the choices they make to access these resources are likely to exert path dependent influences over subsequent entry behavior into new submarkets. This paper explores how firms configure themselves to...

Firms need to access skills, capital, and customers to enter into an industry initially, and the choices they make to access these resources are likely to exert path dependent influences over subsequent entry behavior into new submarkets. This paper explores how firms configure themselves to...

Momentous developments in the global economy over the last two decades have dramatically increased the availability of industrial investment sites and lowered the cost of relocating core activities to new countries. But how should these developments be exploited for competitive advantage? Firms...