Corporate Strategy IG

Most Research on Corporate Outsourcing Falls Short on a Holistic Level, Says a New Study

This pivotal work uncovers an empirical relationship between governance style and location choice—previously treated as independent. By Steve HeislerWhen outsourcing and offshoring decisions need to be made, companies often turn…

When Freemium Succeeds

By Joost Rietveld In 2012, the Wall Street Journal published an articled titled “When Freemium Fails”. The article remarked that, despite the attractive features of the popular digital business model,…

Corporate Strategy Masterclass: Diversification

Release date: November 18, 2021 Speakers: Robert Hoskisson (Rice University) and Belén Villalonga (New York University) Description: In the second session in the Corporate Strategy Masterclass series, please join Robert…

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…

Entry, Exit and the Potential for Resource Redeployment

The ability to redeploy resources inside the firm reduces the cost of entry “mistakes.” If a new business turns out to have poor profitability, the ability to redeploy more of…

Replication using templates

Transferring valuable practices within the firm is an important yet difficult task for many firm types, especially multi-unit firms. One way that firms choose to transfer practices is through the…

The Dark Side of Institutional Intermediaries

Investors and entrepreneurs face uncertainty when deciding what firms to start and fund. We show that an intermediation effort to make entry easier for entrepreneurs increases the uncertainty that entrepreneurs…

Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-Based Theory of the Digital Firm

Digital firms tend to be both nar-row in their vertical scope and large in their scale. Weexplain this phenomenon through a theory about howattributes of firms’ resource bundles impact their…

How Does a Partner’s Acquisition Affect the Value of the Firm’s Alliance with That Partner?

How does an acquisition initi-ated by a firm’s alliance partner affect the value thatthe firm can create and capture from its alliance withthat partner? We conjecture that the similarity betweenthe…

The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing: Evidence from patent prosecution services

Although the link betweencoordination requirements and vertical integration istheoretically well established, empirical tests of thisrelationship are hard to implement due to the simulta-neous determination of both variables. In this study,we…

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