This article examines the value-creation capacity of intra-platform competition (IPC) and exclusivity; two main strategies platforms use to incentivize, accumulate and extract rent from complementary content resources - complementors. Building on the concept of ´resource functionality´ we...

"We test whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is driven by strategic considerations by empirically studying the link between competition and firms' social performance. We find that firms in more competitive industries have better social ratings. In particular, we show that (i) different...

Los beneficios de la competencia en el sector aeroportuario son múltiples. Por un lado, una mayor competencia puede generar menores costes de operación, mejores niveles de eficiencia en el servicio, así como una mejor especialización y adaptación a las necesidades idiosincráticas de los...

From a reactive, antagonistic stance towards environmental regulations, many firms have evolved to act in a pro-active fashion to integrate environmental issues into their core strategies. Driving force behind this development is a growing insight that environmental efforts can potentially be a...