Corporate Strategy
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,…
Read More about When Freemium SucceedsWe establish prior diversification experience as a key determinant of the relationship between growth of product and international diversification. Prior diversification experience allows firms to overcome short-run constraints on simultaneous…
Read More about Christian Stadler on Product & International DiversificationThis study examines how product innovation contributes to the renewal of the firm through its dynamic and reciprocal relation with the firm’s competences. Field research in five high-tech firms of…
Read More about Christian Stadler on Erwin Danneels about innovation & competence renewalApplications 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…
Read More about Kim Boal on emerging from bankruptcyThe 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…
Read More about Entry, Exit and the Potential for Resource RedeploymentTransferring 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…
Read More about Replication using templatesInvestors 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…
Read More about The Dark Side of Institutional IntermediariesDigital 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…
Read More about Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-Based Theory of the Digital FirmHow 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…
Read More about How Does a Partner’s Acquisition Affect the Value of the Firm’s Alliance with That Partner?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…
Read More about The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing: Evidence from patent prosecution services