Ever since Hamel and Prahalad propose the importance of the strategic intent perspective, understanding the relationship between entrepreneurial ambitions and an international expansion strategy becomes a key issue in the fields of international business and strategic management. However, most...

This article explores how sales package frames (bundle vs. free gift) influence consumers’ cost assignments of target items (focal vs. supplementary) in durable product categories. The frames may influence consumers’ upgrade intentions and decisions as a result of their different perceptions...

In two experiments, decision makers chose between risky and ambiguous gambles under conditions of both single (unrepeated) and multiply repeated choices. The gambles were presented either as modified Ellsberg urn choices or as marketing strategy decisions. In both experiments, decision makers...

Industrial organization economics and resource-based views of the firm have disagreed over what matters most to profitability for more than 60 years. Until recent variance decomposition studies started trying to determine the relative importance of industry, corporate parent, and business...

Research on industrial clusters mostly focuses on the effects of the competitive advantage they generate. This study takes a different approach, conducting empirical research on three types of Taiwanese parks (export processing zones, industrial zones, and science parks), in which economic...

The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a significant increase in technology strategy research related to innovation capacity and technological diversity. Recent studies in the field of innovation capacity investigate whether the underlying performance differential among firms...

Regarding the increasingly important role of financial services sectors like futures exchanges previous research has been unable to determine what types of futures contracts contribute to higher trading volumes and the likely magnitudes of their contributions. Thus, to investigate the sources of...

Independent franchisees work cooperatively with service franchisors to strengthen the franchisor's brand name. However, agency theory predicts that franchisor inputs such as brand names and operational routines might be harmed by franchisees' free riding. In addition, previous literature has...

In the economics and strategy fields, researchers seek to understand the antecedents of firm profitability. How and why do certain private enterprise firms develop competitive advantages in environments of rapid technological change while other firms do not? This study extends recent variance...

Recent variance decomposition studies have started trying to determine the relative importance of industry and firm on profitability, but little research has been done to investigate exactly how much the difference in regions and countries could explain the variation in industry performance....