This empirical study examines knowledge creation activities in business service firms. Using survey data of 167 Finnish knowledge-intensive business service firms, I explore hypotheses about the organization of learning and innovation. Results from an exploratory factor analysis combined with...

This paper examines the influence of Internet-based e-Business applications on the vertical separation of design, manufacture, equipment production and process development in the global semiconductor industry. Vertical specialization has contributed to the rapid growth of semiconductor...

The literature and common belief holds that the acquisition of high- technology firms in rapidly evolving markets normally results in failure. Cisco, however, has successfully grown through the conscious and deliberate use of acquisitions to become the dominant global networking equipment...

The impact of the Internet on business activity and industry strategy is now starting to be appreciated. Established corporations as well as startup firms are utilizing the Internet to create new markets and reorganize existing markets. Ubiquity and low cost make the Internet a powerful force...

The discipline of economics has treated technological standards creation as an outcome of network externalities and decisions on the demand side. They pay little attention to the supply side, where firms make strategic choices as to which standard to support. These choices can ignite a contest...