Dynamic strategic interaction between an innovating and a non-innovating incumbent

Evaluating the Growth and Evolution of Facility Management in Innovating Integrating and Aligning Business Strategies to Achieve a Competitive Advantage

The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

Impacts of Innovating Firms' Strategic signals on Market Participants' Market Success in the Context of a Standards War

To increase the likelihood of success of their market-focused innovations, firms that develop innovations for targeted markets regularly communicate with market participants in order to reduce the uncertainties participants hold regarding the firms’ innovations. Strategic market signals are one of the tactics used by these firms. While an innovating firm’s own signals can have significant impac...

Firm heterogeneity, imitation, and the incentives for cost reducing R&D effort

I develop and test a model of strategic cost reducing R&D investments with heterogeneous rivals, where two groups of firms, innovating and non-innovating firms, are distinguished on the basis of their ability to introduce cost reducing innovations and imitate rivals’ marginal cost improvements. I provide conditions under which entry of a non-innovating rival provides a direct positive incentive...

Strategic Alliances, Innovation and Emergence of Organized Proximity

In this paper a model for the formation of strategic alliances is studied. Innovation results from the recombination of knowledge held by the partners to the collaboration, and from the history of their collaboration. Innovation brings partners closer together, while at the same time the repetition of partnerships fosters trust and helps improving the outcome of each round of cooperation. A ten...

Innovating through strategic alliances: moving towards international partnerships and contractual agreements