Purpose – Resource-and knowledge-based scholars claim that firms should focus on the creation and accumulation of knowledge-based competencies in order to yield long-term survival. Several authors have emphasized the added value of alliance relationships in the knowledge development and learning processes of organizations. The knowledge-based view of interfirm alliance has recently drawn increa...

The importance and complexity of the problems associated with coordinating multiple organizations to configure value propositions for customers has drawn the attention of multiple disciplines. In an effort to clarify and consolidate terms, this conceptual research examines both supply chain management (SCM) and system of systems (SoS) literature to postulate, from a value-chain perspective, wha...

While research has long recognized the importance of interfirm networks in firm innovation, nearly all of this work has treated the network concept as a metaphor rather than a construct with measurable properties. Only recently have researchers begun to assess the formal structural properties of alliance networks and their impact on firm innovation and knowledge acquisition. Most of this resear...

We study interaction effects between intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competition on a duopolistic market with seller firms employing one or more agents and implementing tournament incentives. We show that inter-firm competition leads to higher incentive intensity, higher efforts and output levels but lower profits.