Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the effects of communicative interaction on integration and coordination of a commercial aerospace supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – A perspective of supply chains as complex activity networks is used for data analysis based on in‐depth...

In the aerospace industry competitive advantage is searched through product innovation. This paper sets out to explore the effects that relationship development in the commercial aerospace supply chains have on innovation and competitive advantage. A perspective of supply chains as complex...

To understand why some patents get licensed and others do not we estimate a portfolio of firm- and patent-level determinants for why a particular licensor's patent was licensed over all technologically similar patents held by other licensors. Using data for licensed biopharmaceutical patents, we...