We formalize R&D as a search process for technology improvements across the different scientific domains of a technological landscape. Knowledge generated from past search efforts may disseminate to rival firms. We analyze how the resulting path dependency of knowledge, shapes the direction of...

Project selection decisions are complex because they must consider not only financial returns, project risk, and fit with strategy, but also competitive circumstances. A rival's project development efforts provide two pieces of information: a market rivalry signal, which indicates potentially...

The new product development (NPD) process has been long conceptualized as an intense information processing task, yet several questions about the role of information in shaping NPD decisions remain open. For instance, the persistent representation of NPD decisions as a single decision-maker...

Responding to an information technology (IT) system failure often requires a collaborative approach in which both the client and the vendor need to invest in response capacity. By investing more in response capacity, the client might make the vendor's response capacity more effective in the...