What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning
Firms are organizations that represent social knowledge of coordination and learning. But why should their boundaries demarcate quantitative shifts in the knowledge and capabili...
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Automated generation of heuristics for biological sequence comparison
Abstract Background Exhaustive methods of sequence alignment are accurate but slow, whereas heuristic approaches run quickly, but their complexity makes them more difficult to i...
Uncertain Imitability: An Analysis of Interfirm Differences in Efficiency under Competition
Causal ambiguity inherent in the creation of productive processes is modeled by attaching an irreducible ex ante uncertainty to the level of firm efficiency that is achieved by ...
Structuring cooperative relationships between organizations
Abstract Alliances and similar cooperative efforts are receiving increased attention in the strategic management literature. These relationships differ in significant ways from ...
Resource-based View of Strategic Alliance Formation: Strategic and Social Effects in Entrepreneurial Firms
Why do firms form strategic alliances? The traditional theoretical answer has been transaction cost explanations. Yet, these explanations which center on transaction characteris...
Efficient inorganic–organic hybrid heterojunction solar cells containing perovskite compound and polymeric hole conductors
Inorganic-organic hybrid structures have become innovative alternatives for next-generation dye-sensitized solar cells, because they combine the advantages of both systems. Here...
Determinants of Continuity in Conventional Industrial Channel Dyads
Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the question of how to build stable, long-term relationships between manufacturers and members of conventional channels. This des...
The evolution of cooperation in strategic alliances: Initial conditions or learning processes?
We examine how the learning, along several dimensions (environment, task, process, skills, goals), that takes place in strategic alliances between firms mediates between the ini...
Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Stroke Network, Health Research Board Ireland, Swedish Research Council, Swedish Heart an...
Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories
The history of an individual or group can always be characterized as a sequence of events. People finish school, enter the labor force, marry, give birth, get promoted, change e...