It is argued that an evolutionary perspective on firm boundaries with its strong focus on knowledge, as well as processes of search, learning and capability development is instrumental in developing a theory of firm boundaries that is close to managerial concerns. Building on insights in evolutionary economics, propositions are developed regarding scope, speed, and switching costs in the proces...

This paper examines the response of Indian firms to the emergence of a new disruptive market segment resulting from evolving biosimilar regulation and saturation of existing generics markets. Using novel analytical tools such as a technology–market capability matrix and a capability creation model, we show technological trajectories and heterogeneity in firm strategies employed by incumbent fir...

The extent to which a firm deploys IT resources in conjunction with other resources is sometimes referred to as IT capability. The aim of this paper is to investigate what affects IT capability. To understand the aspects that affect IT capability, we systematically examined prior literature. We identified four generic IT capability aspects (organizational, people, relational and technical IT co...

Firms often acquire other firms to source technology but it is unclear why they might assume such risk by buying before a product standard is established in their industry. We draw upon real options and dynamic capability theories of firm organization to develop an integrated framework that explains why firms might acquire early and which firms are more likely to do so. We develop propositions ...

Prior research has found that the announcement of marketing alliances tends to produce no effect on firm value creation in a high-tech context. This article reexamines this issue and investigates whether the characteristics of a firm’s network of alliances affect the firm value created from the announcement of a new marketing alliance. The authors investigate whether network centrality, network...

Prior research has found that the announcement of marketing alliances tends to produce no effect on firm value creation in a high-tech context. This article reexamines this issue and investigates whether the characteristics of a firm’s network of alliances affect the firm value created from the announcement of a new marketing alliance. The authors investigate whether network centrality, network...

How do IT-enabled capabilities influence firms’ ability to leverage customer involvement and shape the amount of firm innovation? This study theorizes that effective processing and management of customer information flows requires organizations to possess “relational information processing capability” (RIPC) and “analytical information processing capability” (AIPC). Drawing on and extending the...

This paper presents the applications of the developed Strategic Investment Model in the Flexible Plug and Play (FPP) project to determine the optimal network investment portfolio. The Model optimises the investment in smart grid technologies such as Quadrature-boosters, DLRs, SVCs, novel protection systems to improve reverse power flow capability as well as traditional network investment in lin...

Abstract—Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm and using Ohlson’s (1995) residual income valuation framework, this paper investigates the relationships between IT Capability, IT spending and market value. We also examine the role of industry context by empirically investigating the moderating role of three industry characteristics (munificence, dynamism, and complexity). A firm’s IT ...

We address the following two research questions: (1) under what circumstances will firms prefer internal SaaS development to external sourcing? and (2) how does the SaaS development mode affect firm performance? We examine the SaaS development actions in the computer industry (SIC code 737) from 2003 to 2012. The preliminary analysis results suggest that firms with large amount of working capit...