Collaboration between individuals in firms has important implications for the development of relational and human capital and is thus of critical concern to individuals and firms alike. In knowledge-intensive contexts where collaborations are formed to deliver services to clients, collaboration...

Existing research has documented the role that CEOs, and especially CEO regulatory focus, play in shaping firm strategy. Yet, the impact of CEOs is constrained by that of the other executives in the firm, and the strategic leadership literature has repeatedly called for more research that...

We develop and apply a new set of empirical tools consistent with the tenets of value-based business strategies, leveraging the principle that “no good deal comes undone” and the methods of revealed preferences, to empirically estimate drivers of value creation. We demonstrate how to use...

We extend the formal literature on the value-based foundations of strategy, an approach which seeks to integrate industry-level and firm-level analyses of superior performance. The value-based approach starts with the set of players in an industry value chain and their value creation...

When are the incentives of a business ecosystem’s participants aligned with its growth? How is the technology of value creation affecting this alignment? To answer these questions we formally model how value creation determines value capture in a business ecosystem. We find that alignment is...