The days of vertical integration are over. Product development, manufacturing, and other activities once done by single firms are now fields of collaboration. This raises questions about the spatial aspects of interfirm collaboration. Firms have partners in their direct environment, at a...

Extant strategic management studies usually couple the intensification in the globalization of best business practices to the growing of the specific capabilities needed to transfer business knowledge between or among firms and to implement those practices locally (Hansen, 1999, 2002; Kostova, 1999;...

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...