Large companies have long sensed the potential value of investing in external start-ups, but more often than not, they fail to get it right. Remember the dash to invest in new ventures in the late 1990s and the hasty retreat when the economy turned? This article presents a framework that will help a company decide whether it should invest in a particular start-up by first understanding what kin...

The US federal government has recently made a substantial investment to enhance the US health information technology (IT) infrastructure. Previous literature on the impact of IT on firm performance across multiple industries has emphasized the importance of a process of co-invention whereby organizations develop complementary practices to achieve greater benefit from their IT investments. In he...

P rogressive corporations have invested in increasingly ambitious sustainability initiatives. While environmental investments are welcome by society, managers need to identify the circumstances favoring the generation of both public benefits and corporate profits. For some firms, better utilization of resources may pay-off as environmentrelated investments. For others, obtaining ISO 14001 certi...

We examine markets in which agents make investments and then match into pairs, creating surpluses that depend on their investments and that can be split between the matched agents. In general, each of the matched agents would “own”part of the surplus in the absence of interagent transfers. Most of the work in the large bargaining-andmatching literature ignores this initial ownership of the surp...

This model discusses mobile network operators’ (MNOs) incentives to invest in their network facilities such as new 4G networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due to the roaming agreements it will be shown that MNOs, competing on investments, widely set higher investments for below cost regulation of roaming charg...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that examined a possible connection between investments in Information Technology and changes in the market value of companies in Japan. The event-study methodology, which focuses on the change of stock price as a result of announcements about Information Technology investments, was applied. The main contribution of this project was to exa...

In this study we propose that relationship specific investments reduce the likelihood of relationship dissolution. These types of investments increase switching costs and thereby create barriers towards exiting. Additionally, high levels of relationship specific investments enhance partners' ability and willingness to resort to voice when defections and conflicts arise, and hence postpone exit....