research
Venture capital firms, traditionally local-focused, increasingly invest internationally. We propose immigrant entrepreneur ties drive this trend, validated through a study of U.S. VC in India.
This study explores how immigrants influence the foreign expansion of firms from their home countries in the US. It suggests that common country bonds positively impact location choice and survival,…
An important focus of the research on mergers and acquisitions is the conditions under which acquisitions create value for the acquiring firm’s shareholders. Given that the acquisition process is plagued…
Some research suggests that knowledge transfer and performance suffer when entities are distant from each other, while other work emphasizes that distance is beneficial by allowing firms to access novel…
Using data from a sample of foreign subsidiaries established in the U.S. by firms from 27 countries between 1998 and 2003, this study examines the relationship between immigrants and the…
Using an organizational learning perspective, we develop arguments about vicarious learning through board interlocks and its relation to experiential learning. Although it is well established that firms learn from board…
We explore how firms protect themselves from the risks of knowledge spillover to indirectly connected rivals in a network of interorganizational ties. We argue that the safeguards to limit opportunistic…
Acquisitions can dramatically reshape interorganizational networks by combining previously separate nodes and allowing the acquirer to inherit the target’s ties, potentially creating network synergy. Network synergy is the extent to which combining an…
Research linking interorganizational networks to innovation has focused on spanning structural boundaries as a means of knowledge recombination. Increasingly, firms also partner across institutional boundaries (countries, industries, technologies) in their…
Finalist for the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2015 SMS Annual Conference. Research on networks emphasizes the addition or deletion of ties as the primary mechanism through which firms…
Research shows that firms tend to expand into foreign locations with sizeable co-ethnic communities. Yet many cases exist in which the same firm chooses to co-locate with an ethnic community…
We review the classic theory of the MNE and past attempts to use it to understand the internationalization of firms from emerging markets. We offer two criteria to determine whether…
Institutional reforms can profoundly alter the competitive positions of firms. Yet there has been limited research on which firms benefit most from these reforms: are the opportunities they create seized…
Networks change when either the ties or the nodes are modified. Research on interfirm networks has conceptualized network change as driven almost exclusively by modifications in ties (additions and deletions).…
Value in mergers and acquisitions derives from the synergistic combination of an acquirer and a target. We advance the existing conceptualization of synergy in three ways. First, we develop a…
