In the UK, SSAP 13 requires that firms immediately expense most of their R&D expenditures.The reported earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less valuerelevantinformation to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample offirms from the...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could sustain their service requirements while remaining effective and competitive. This research seeks to explore the major outsourcing issues within the HE context, including why...

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance to a subset of rivals. Allowing the non-license takers to remain active...

This article uncovers the role of financial clustering in creating competitive advantage forincumbents in the Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the underresearchedSingapore cluster reveals (a) how clustering conditions have influenced thedevelopment of the City as a financial...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted tomake them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability ofuniversities to develop strategic capabilities as cohesive organisations is limited by the inherentuncertainty of...

This paper explores the sources of agglomeration externalities in enhancing firmperformance, in particular, the pecuniary externality that supports firms’ bottom line.The fundamental argument on increasing returns leads to the premise that cluster sizehas beneficial influence to firm...

With increasing cost competition and product variety, providing an efficient Just-in-Time (JIT) supply has become one of the greatest challenges in the use of mixedmodelassembly line production systems. In the present paper, therefore, we proposea new approach for scheduling JIT part supply from...

This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated biotechnology firms focusing on a particular type of strategy, the hybrid model. Patterns of skill...