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作者：Li, Julie Juan; Poppo, Laura; Zhou, Kevin Zheng
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Kansas; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This research focuses oil relational and contractual mechanisms and examines their impact oil foreign subsidiaries' acquisition of tacit and explicit knowledge from local suppliers. Using survey data from 168 foreign subsidiaries operating ill China, this study finds broad support for the proposed analytical framework. When the foreign subsidiary and supplier share common goals, the foreign subsidiary acquires greater levels of both explicit and tacit knowledge: trust between the two parties p...
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作者：Chen, Shih-Fen S.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：Branding and transaction cost economics represent two research streams that rarely cross paths in the literature. hi this study, I explore the transaction cost implication of private branding, a practice whereby products supplied by unaffiliated manufacturers are sold under private brands owned by retailers. The main thesis is that private branding can preempt a special case of asset specificity called brand specificity, where retailers also invest in the marketing of an outsourced product, bu...
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作者：Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Lieberman, Marvin B.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：This paper characterizes interindustry heterogeneity in rates of learning-by-doing, and examines how industry learning rates art, connected with firm performance. Using plant-level data from the U.S. manufacturing Sector, we measure the industry learning rate, as the coefficient on cumulative output in a production function. We find that learning rates vary considerably among industries and are higher in industries with greater R&D, advertising, and capital intensity. More importantly, we find...
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作者：Soh, Pek-Hooi
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：This study examines the performance implications of the alliance networks of 49 firms that competed for two technology standards in the U.S. local area network industry from 1989 to 1996. During the race to define a dominant design, individual firms attract the suppliers of complements by building alliance networks to favor the firms' preferred technology standard. Controlling,for the number of suppliers in each technology standard community and the extent Of technical progress achieved by ind...
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作者：Agarwal, Rajshree; Croson, Rachel; Mahoney, Joseph T.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This paper evperimentally examines the determinants of the deviation between potential and realized value creation in strategic alliances. To better understand how, decision making in alliances may influence success, we use an experimental design that juxtaposes two important factors that affect alliance members' decisions: economic incentives and communication. The evidence from our experiment sheds light on the relative impact of each, and more importantly, host, both factors interact to exp...
