This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated to business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared...

This dissertation investigates the determinants of the magnitude of firm search investments, boundaries of search, and search decisions under uncertainty. It consists of three studies, each of which examines a different dimension of organizational search based on comparative theoretical...

This paper extends the resource-based theory of the firm to examine the contingencies that either intensify or reduce the relationship between firm-specific innovation and value appropriation. Based on a large-scale analysis of a sample of US manufacturing firms, we found that greater innovation...