This study contributes to the New Institutional Economics literature by showing that firms
adopting a mixed governance structure are more innovative than those adopting a single …

Governance structures are described as a spectrum with the market and vertical integration
as its poles. During the past decades, the theoretical and empirical work aligned with New …

To date, research on the relationship between board structure and performance remains
inconclusive (cf. Certo et al., 2001; Daily et al., 2000; Dalton et al., 1999; Hill and Snell …

The paper investigates implications of different theoretical models for hierarchical structure.
A sample of 6,578 firms in the Brazilian manufacturing industry is considered and …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how inter-organizational relationships
can contribute to innovation in service firms, by identifying practices used in a given alliance …

Departing from the usual debates regarding the superiority of one governance structure over
another, this study aims to complement the prior institutional approach by addressing how a …

This paper builds on institutional economics theory to analyze whether and how the
institutional environment shapes the micro-level governance decisions related to innovation …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between innovation and firms
governancestructure. We present and analyze a simple model in which the firm s …

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the relationship between inter-firm collaboration
network and the type of innovation strategies that can be followed by firms: buy or make …

The purpose of this work is to discuss the issue of how companies aiming to increase their
innovative capacity should decide about their organizational structure. To accomplish this …