This paper examines entry and survival in the US software market of a sample of firms based in India, Ireland and Israel. Our investigation focuses on pre-entry technological capabilities, international linkages and home based experience as determinants of the firm entry decision and post-entry...

This paper investigates the skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that skill variety of...

Modularity scholars argue that modular architectures lead to higher strategic flexibility through mass customisation and through both incremental and architectural innovation. There is little empirical evidence, however, on whether modular firms actually achieve the expected advantages. In this...

Theorizing on hypercompetition and temporary advantages calls for developing theory and empirical evidence about whether and why competitive advantages may be becoming less sustainable. Our study attempts to contribute to such an endeavour by examining 1319 firms in United States and 700 firms...

Governance is exposed to criticism. In situations of corporate and political failure, criticisms of governance failure abound and calls for new oversight often follow promptly. Similarly, the field of corporate governance research is exposed to criticism, too. While encompassing contributions...

This paper aims to leverage neuroscience and psychology to contribute to the development of a microfoundation for an important managerial dilemma: the organizational ability to continuously explore novel domains of activity and exploit the current knowledge base with increasing efficacy. The...

This paper investigates the relationship between an employer and a knowledge worker when an arrangement is set ex-ante to a¤ect the relative bargaining position in the ex-post negotiation. Specically, we study what drives the employers decision to endow the worker with the rights to control the...

The paper examines the determinants of scientific productivity (number of articles and journals’ impact factor) for a panel of about 3600 French and Italian academic physicists active in 2004-05. Endogeneity problems concerning promotion and productivity are addressed by specifying a...

We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two- city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized esternality fosters the productivity of individuals when...