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The ongoing discussion on the best possible configuration of the value chain is the starting point of this article. The core of strategic management is to define the boundaries over the firm's generic activities on the value chain and to establish the relationships with those stakeholders that...

Establishes frameworks do not allow tho easily measure the proliferation of various international expansion strategies with readily available data. Therefore, a new framework is created and tested within the scope of a larger research project. As one part of this project, this article provides...

We introduce a stochastic game in which transition probabilitiesdepend on the history of the play, i.e., the players’past action choices.To solve this new type of game under the limiting average reward crite-rion, we determine the set of jointly-convergent pure-strategy rewardswhich can be...

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of differentbusiness strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We usedata on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

To analyze strategic interaction which may induce externalities, we designed Bathroom Games with frequency-dependent stage payoffs. Two people regularly use a bathroom, before leaving they can either clean up the mess made, or not. Cleaning up involves an effort, so this option always gives a...