Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s...

Games of innovation involve four types of organisational players: firms, governments, universities, and nonprofit organisations. Of the four, nonprofit organisations are the least well understood. To capture the contributions of all types of organisational players, I adopt the perspective of a...

The literature has described how challenger firms from emerging economies first develop resources and capabilities by serving domestic markets, and then leverage their domestic strengths to compete in global markets. But in our era of open innovation, there are multiple paths to participation in...