Firms' interfirm relationships such as foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic vertical equity connections have important implications for workers' wages within the firms. However, little empirical evidence on these wage effects within firms is available in the literature. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting estimates for such wage effects. We estimate the effects on wor...

Previous studies have emphasized the necessity for software platform owners to govern their platform ecosystem in order to create durable opportunities for themselves and the app developers that surround the platform. To date, platform ecosystems have been widely analyzed from the perspective of platform owners, however, how and to what extent app developers collaborate with their peers needs t...

Non-market interactions are increasingly regarded as key explanations for spatial concentration. Consistently, both innovation and local knowledge spillovers play a central role in recent theories of agglomeration. According to these theories, exchange of localised knowledge gives firms an innovative advantage which results in better economic performance. However, it has turned out to be diffic...

Interfirm cooperation and its linkage to management accounting information are vital for organizational performance. However, the literature lacks insight into how competitive advantage emerges in context of intrafirm via use systems (MAS). This study evaluates whether practices translate among different functions enhanced Findings from survey data 186 large firms Vietnam show that MAS fully me...

We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized, imperfectly competitive, industries. We investigate the effects of opening up markets to trade as well as of further market integration on the negotiated wage and the maximum delay in reaching an agreement. From an initial situation of two-way intraindustry trade, an increase in product market integrati...

Organizational theorists have correctly argued that the emergence and maintenance of robust cooperation between global strategic alliance partners is related to the diversity in the partners' characteristics. Yet previous research has failed to systematically delineate the important dimensions of interfirm diversity and integrate the dimensions into a unified framework of analysis. This paper d...

Existing research suggests that effective interfirm collaboration in the development of new process technologies involves close, dyadic relationships between users and suppliers. Shared goals, common assumptions, and long term i elationships ar^ salient features of the model. This paper develops an alternative, fluid model of interfirm collaboration involving multiple weak linkages among organi...

This paper analyzes the network structure and R&D activities of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Suzhou municipality, known previously for its local state-directed Sunan model of development. Suzhou, however, has been undergoing dramatic restructuring to remake itself into a globalizing production center. We highlight the significance of the Chinese state and local...