Visualizing interfirm comparison

Organising Interfirm Learning

Von Maj Munch Andersen he recent rise of greening as a corporate issue forms a part of what some environmental researchers see as the emergence of a new green techno-economic paradigm (1). The greening process is seen as revolutionary in character, entailing a paradigm shift resulting in major cognitive and technological changes. This paradigm change is expected to have thorough structural effe...

Interfirm alliances in online retailing

Reports in the popular media attest to the fact that the commercial development of the Web has sparked greater interconnectedness and competition between firms. Under rapid technological and market change and opportunity, firms who have innovative ideas, technologies, and products form alliances to coordinate their resources and fully capitalize on them in a timely fashion. Drawing on interorga...

Competitive Implications of Interfirm Mobility

This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm’s higher-order routines, we investigate the conditions under which interfirm mobility triggers transfer of routines across organizational boundaries. We examine membership lists pertinent to the Dutch ac...

Interfirm Alliances: A Collaborative Entrepreneurship Perspective

Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam

Trading relations in Vietnam’s emerging private sector are shaped by two market frictions: the difficulty of locating trading partners and the absence of legal enforcement of contracts. Examining relational contracting, we Žnd that a Žrm trusts its customer enough to offer credit when the customer Žnds it hard to locate an alternative supplier. A longer duration of trading relationship is assoc...