This paper explicates the key mechanisms and research themes of industry life‐cycle theory
and assesses the extent to which empirical evidence supports such an approach. It is based …

Empirical studies of the effects of organizational and environmental factors on product and
process innovations are reviewed in this chapter. Our review shows that, for most …

This research aims at exploring the relationship between a firm's strategic orientation,
marketing management in terms of marketing mix tactics, and innovation performance. We …

We quantify agglomeration spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP)
among incumbent plants in “winning” counties that attracted a large manufacturing plant and …

I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using
a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large …

As the economies and indigenous technological capabilities of the new industrialized
countries improve, national universities and public research organizations are expected to …

This paper looks at the probability of introducing innovations by manufacturing firms at
different stages of their lives. Once differences related to activity and size are controlled for …

A phenomenon that has become the focus of recent research on interorganizational alliance
network growth is that firms often enter into repeated relationships with prior partners. The …

We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing
entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that, on average, NPEs appear to …

This paper empirically evaluates how different firm life cycle stages influence managers
while making firms' input and output innovation decisions under asset liquidity constraints …