IT-enabled innovations are critical for competitive success in a range of industries including financial brokerage. This paper addresses the crucial question: How do capability development strategies differ between first-movers and late-entrants in IT-enabled services. We develop a theory based...

IT-enabled innovations are of increasing importance for competitive success in a range to develop associated competencies - in-house and/or through outsourcing - consequential for creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Against the backdrop of the importance of IT-enabled innovation, the...

Studies of career dynamics implicitly claim that government employees are not entrepreneurial. Utilizing longitudinal data from the U.S. Panel Study for Income Dynamics, we investigate the reasons for the low rate of entrepreneurship from the public sector. We conjecture that it is due to labor...

Cities differ dramatically with respect to the extent in which their economic and other activities are diversified. Some cities are specialized, while other cities harbour a myriad of organizations, performing a huge variety of activities. An unanswered question is: Where does such...

Dit is een bijzonder onderzoekmemorandum: niet vanwege de inhoud, hoewel die ongetwijfeld controversieel zal blijken te zijn, maar omdat het een memorandum is dat het eerste produkt is van een nieuw instituut. Eind 1996 is in Maastricht het Netherlands Institute of Business Organization and...

Previous research on the impact of chief executive officer (CEO) locus of control is mainly based on simple and partial mappings of bivariate associations between CEO locus of control and organizational outcomes. In addition, distinct substreams have emerged in which intricately related...

Dit is een bijzonder onderzoekmemorandum: niet vanwege de inhoud, hoewel die ongetwijfeld controversieel zal blijken te zijn, maar omdat het een memorandum is dat het eerste produkt is van een nieuw instituut. Eind 1996 is in Maastricht het Netherlands Institute of Business Organization and...

This paper merges two theoretical perspectives in a mathematical game model: industrial organization on the one hand, which basically is the economic theory of market competition and firm strategies, and organizational ecology on the other, which is a major sociological tradition that studies...