Acquisitions Archaeology -- It's the Platform

Merging Platform Ecosystems in Technology Acquisitions: a Governance Perspective

This paper investigates the issue of merging third-party ecosystems in corporate acquisitions to access innovative technologies and related capabilities. Extant explanations for how technology acquisitions create value are limited to the analysis of the internal capabilities and structures of the merging companies. Given the increasing importance of platforms and value co-creation with third-pa...

The Archaeology of Meaning

Thinking and doing in cognitive archaeology: Giving skill its due

Wynn shows that intentionally standardized artifacts (handaxes) provide evidence of the ability to conceptualize form (symmetry). However, such conceptual ability is not sufficient for the actual production of these forms. Stone knapping is a concrete skill that is acquired in the real world. Appreciation of its perceptual-motor foundations and the broader issues surrounding skill acquisition m...

The Archaeology of Consumption

A vast range of archaeological studies could be construed as studies of consumption, so it is perhaps surprising that relatively few archaeologists have defined their scholarly focus as consumption. This review examines how archaeology can produce a distinctive picture of consumption that remains largely unaddressed in the rich interdisciplinary consumer scholarship. Archaeological research pro...

The archaeology of disease

pictures of his laboratory and apparatus. There are also photographs of some of his colleagues. But the best illustration, which will appeal to many, is the superb pencil portrait done by his grand-niece Lucie when she was only thirteen years old. Einthoven was looked on with admiration by his friends and associates for his unfailing courtesy, patience, and modesty, as well as for his genius an...