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The influence of complementary resources on firm boundary decisions

King, David R. - In: Advances in mergers and acquisitions 13 (2014), pp. 25-42

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Agglomeration and the choice between acquisitions and alliances : an information economics perspective

McCann, Brian T.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Lahiri, Nandini - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 6, pp. 1085-1106

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Do strategic alliances, acquisitions, and R&D investments act as complements or substitutes?

Martynov, Aleksey - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 8 (2016) 1, pp. 7-20

effects between alliances and acquisitions and between alliances and internal R&D investments. Firms with high absorptive …This paper studies possible complementarities and substitution effects between such strategic choices as alliances …, acquisitions and internal R&D investments. The findings indicate that a firm’s absorptive capacity affects the presence of …

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Markets for (codified, tacit, encapsulated, and firm-specific) knowledge

Silverman, Brian S. - 2018

market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market for encapsulated knowledge (sale/purchase of sophisticated products), the … acquisitions) …

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Tying Arrangements and Antitrust Harm

Hovenkamp, Erik; Hovenkamp, Herbert - 2015

A tying arrangement is a seller’s requirement that a customer may purchase its “tying” product only by taking its “tied” product. In a variable proportion tie the purchaser can vary the amount of the tied product. For example, a customer might purchase a single printer, but either a...

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Managing Uncertainty, Evolution and Design in Behavioral Economic Analysis

Azpúrua Alfonzo, José Miguel - 2015

The present work examines the evolutionary theories set forth by Armen Alchian in his 1950 paper, Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory; and furthered by Geoffrey Manne and Todd Zywicki in their recent paper titled Uncertainty, Evolution, and Behavioral Economic Theory. Alchian’s thesis...

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Learning Product Characteristics and Consumer Preferences from Search Data

Armona, Luis; Lewis, Gregory; Zervas, Georgios - 2021

A building block of many models in empirical industrial organization is a characteristic space, where products are modeled as a bundle of characteristics over which consumers have preferences. The ability of such models to predict counterfactual outcomes depends on how well this characteristic...

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A Theory of Digital Firm-Designed Markets : Defying Knowledge Constraints with Crowds and Marketplaces

Tajedin, Hamed; Madhok, Anoop; Keyhani, Mohammad - 2021

In this paper we investigate the ways in which new forms of organization enabled by digital technologies such as crowdsourcing and digital marketplaces are allowing firms to circumvent and defy traditional knowledge constraints. This is part of the broader question of when and why these forms of...

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Technological Discontinuities and Complementary Assets : A Longitudinal Study of Industry and Firm Performance

Rothaermel, Frank T.; Hill, Charles W. L. - 2015

The point of departure is a competence-destroying technological discontinuity. We posit that the type of complementary assets (generic vs. specialized) needed to commercialize the new technology is critical in determining the industry- and firm-level performance in the post-discontinuity time...

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A Signal Jamming Theory of Resale Price Maintenance

Gilligan, Thomas W. - 2013

This paper contains a theoretical analysis demonstrating that a retail price floor can increase the expected profits of an upstream firm when it is asymmetrically informed about the state of product demand. The retail price floor serves to eliminate the incentives of the upstream firm to...

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