There has been a growing interest among entrepreneurs and students in explicit guidance
for entrepreneurial action. Both scholars and practitioners have responded to this demand …

Transaction cost economics, neoclassical economics, and the firm capabilities literatures
propose theories of the firm that typically depict firm boundaries determined by a …

The book assumes an original place in the literature... Castellani and Zanfei show that the
economic impact of MNEs on innovation and productivity depends on evolutionary features …

Theories of the firm raise conflicting arguments about how complementarities between two
or more components affect firms' knowledge and production boundaries. Traditional …

Firms use repeated partnerships to gain benefits of shared experience such as improved
coordination, collaboration, and adaptation. However, there are downsides to partnering …

Despite the wideness of the literature on industrial districts (IDs), the driving processes of ID
innovation have not still received much attention: Questions about how new innovation …

This research empirically examines the relation between R&D cooperation and unintended
innovation performance. The effects of appropriability and sectoral conditions on the …

The aim of this work is to investigate the factors determining cooperation in developing
innovations between firms and a specific group of agents, customers and users. The central …

This article considers how a firm's system of exchange skills including internal technical
expertise and supplier governance mechanisms influence supplier performance, both …

Our study of 116 new product development projects in Taiwanese Information Technology
(IT) firms show that horizontal linkages more strongly impact on new product innovativeness …