This study systematically reviews 200 articles published over the past three decades to
reveal how appropriability and appropriation have been explained and how those …

Ecosystems are the result of a delicate balance between centripetal forces that push
economic activities toward integration, and centrifugal forces that pull economic activities out …

Patents as intangible assets are subjects of burgeoning empirical research. However, there
is limited knowledge of how patent quality and patent value can be conceptualized …

Existing academic literature has discussed contracts and relational governance as the key
mechanisms that help alliance partners address problems of cooperation and coordination …

Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine the effect of technological
competition over a patent on the firm's choice of patenting strategy. We claim that …

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory
approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of …

Although the relationship between competition and firm innovation has long been of
scholarly interest, prior research has predominantly considered changes in internal research …

The literature on open innovation has documented how companies expand their boundaries
to become more open, leaving out how boundaries narrow as open innovation relationships …

The ability to access specialized complementary assets has been key to explaining how
firms benefit from their technological innovations. When firms lack complementary assets the …

We develop a novel framework to explain how the unique properties of out‐licensing enable
R&D reconfiguration in the context of technology acquisitions. Out‐licensing is an attractive …