Cooperative Strategies IG

On Top of The Game When Freemium Products Succeed

Video abstract for “On top of the game? The double-edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products” by Joost Rietveld and Joe N. Ploog published in the Strategic Management…

Competition and Governance in Platforms

In this online session hosted by the SMS Cooperative Strategies Interest Group, we bring together leading scholars who are working at the forefront of digital platforms to discuss the latest…

What is the Contribution of the Alliance Network to Firm Profitability?

Recent work in the Strategic Management Journal coauthored by Pankaj Kumar, Xiaojin (Jim) Liu, and Akbar (Aks) Zaheer, helps add fresh insights into the sources of variation in firm profitability.…

SMS PhD Chats: Planning Your Dissertation

Release date: December 6, 2021 Speakers: Anita McGahan (University of Toronto), Phanish Puranam (INSEAD), Samina Karim (Northeastern University), and Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota) Description: Following extensive discussions of job market issues, the SMS…

SMS PhD Chats: Job Talks and Visits

Release date: August 25, 2021 Speakers: Marie Louise Mors (Copenhagen Business School), Chris Rider (University of Michigan), Samina Karim (Northeastern University), and Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota) Description: As we head…

Income or Education? Community-level Antecedents of Firms’ Category-spanning Activities

A new study in the Strategic Management Journal written by Heewon Chae helps shed light on how the COVID-19 crisis influences retail firms’ business portfolio and product offerings. In this…

Kim Boal on emerging from bankruptcy

Applications of signaling theory to predict reorganization outcomes are in their infancy. The dynamic integrative framework developed in this study is useful in identifying different types of signals and predicting…

The Evolution of Cooperation in the Face of Conflict

Firms in innovation-driven industries cooperate to develop interoperability standards and compatible technologies. Yet, cooperative firms may disagree about what constitutes fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms for licensing intellectual property. Thus,…

Aaron Chatterji & Kira Fabrizio – User innovation (SMJ 2013 & 2014)

Location matters: Valuing firmspecific nonmarket risk…global mining industry

We argue that mines located near environmentally sensitive water sources are subject to nonmarket risks arising from the potential collective actions of local stakeholders and their allies. Stakeholder mobilization can…

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