Efficient cooperation, which has become common under rising economic globalization, is leading to new opportunities and challenges for enterprises choosing long-term competition strategies. Sharing resources with competitors is believed to weaken a firm's competitive edge. However, a potentially...

This paper develops a theoretical model and then, using Canadian joint replacement surgery data, empirically tests the relationship between government policies that promote privately funded health care and patients' waiting time in the public health care system. Two policies are tested: one...