This paper investigates strategies for value creation of e-commerce companies. Our main assumption is that e-commerce fundamentally affects the way business is conducted across many industries. To support this insight, we discuss the unique characteristics of 'virtual markets' brought on by the...

An analysis of the impact of alliance activity during the period 1989-1993 on the performance of organizations in the US computing industry reveals that: (1) the distribution of alliance activity is skewed to firms with greater market power, capacity, as well as greater technical, commercial,...

HRM processes refer to the deeply-embedded, firm-specific, dynamic routines by which a firm attracts, socializes, trains, motivates, evaluates, and compensates its human resources. This perspective integrates economic considerations with contextual social legitimacy aspects. It provides new...