The link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and competitiveness has been examined mainly at the business level. The purpose of this paper is to improve conceptual understanding and provide empirical evidence on the link between CSR and competitiveness at the national level. We draw on...

We aim to model the "optimal" choice on internal versus external innovation for value capture of different-sized firms, in the context of multi-level bargaining. We find that size differentials are a major determinant for the choice in hand. We derive implications for "closed" versus "open"...

Extant explanations of the nature and scope of firms, such as transaction costs, property rights, metering and ‘resources’ can be integrated into a more general (capability-based) theory of the nature and essence of the firm that recognizes the importance to the firm of creating (and...