Organizations enter alliances with each other to access critical re-sources, but they rely on
information from the network of prior alli-ances to determine with whom to cooperate. These …

This paper presents a dynamic, firm‐level study of the role of network resources in
determining alliance formation. Such resources inhere not so much within the firm but reside …

This study explores how social structure affects interfirm alliance formation patterns. It
proposes that the social context emerging from prior alliances and considerations of …

Using data on US investment banking firms' syndication in underwriting corporate stock
offerings during the 1980s, this study explores the factors that drive alliance formation …

The USA and other countries spend a significant portion of their defense budgets on
personnel. Effective management of military forces requires an understanding of the …

This paper uses data from the US Decennial Census and the Current Population Surveys to
document the differential shifts that occurred in the wage structures of the public and …

Studies of career dynamics implicitly claim that government employees are not
entrepreneurial. Utilizing longitudinal data from the US Panel Study for Income Dynamics …

This paper examines the determinants of the number and quality of outside applicants for
federal job openings, using a variety of time-series, cross-sectional, and panel data sets …

We examine the retirement behavior of federal civil service workers employed by the
Department of Defense. These workers provide an interesting population for studying …

We estimate the effect of financial incentives for reenlistment on military retention rates using
a stochastic dynamic programming model. We show that the computational burden of the …