We contend that business groups in emerging economies command a premium when it comes to benefiting from political ties because their organizational structures are compartmentalized and thereby well suited to profitably include, isolate and mask political ties. We demonstrate how the structural...

O noua forma de organizatie-intreprinderea comunitara- asigura un mecanism alternativ pentru corporatii de a se comporta responsabil social. Intreprinderile comunitare se deosebesc de celelalte organizatii din sectorul al treilea prin generarea de venit prin tranzactie mai degraba decat prin...

In this paper, we focus on a key, but understudied process that affects the development of a new market: the interfirm negotiation process through which the interested parties agree on a business model to exchange resources in order to create the new product or service. We observed this process...

Researchers in corporate strategy have long argued that resource "relatedness" contributes to a firm’s competitive advantage. One implication is that entries made by a firm into businesses that are closely related to the firm’s existing businesses should have higher survival rates than...