Edith Penrose in the New Economy
by BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES — Published in 2025 Strategic Management Review — Edith…
Research Papers
Recent Papers
CHAPTER: Entrepreneurship Through Mergers and Alliances — Schumpeter Remixed
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, in Sharon Matusik and Jeffrey Reuer (eds.), Chapter 4,…
CHAPTER: Profitability of JVs Abroad — A New Empirical Puzzle
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, MAURICIO JENKINS, and PETER ZÁMBORSKÝ, in Farok Contractor and…
Competing in Groups
How Alliances Reshape Competition
(Handbook of Strategic Alliances) Alliances are intended to help firms cooperate better…
Competing in Alliance Constellations: A Primer for Managers
(Carnegie Bosch Institute) When two or more firms link up in an…
Competitive Advantage in Alliance Constellations
(Strategic Organization) What determines the success of a firm competing as part…
The Logic of Alliance Fads: Why Collective Competition Spreads
(Oxford University Press chapter, forthcoming) Alliances often seem to spread in waves….
Alliance Strategies of Small Firms
(Small Business Economics) Concludes that small firms follow one of two alliance…
Group versus Group: How Alliance Networks Compete
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Collaboration in business is…
Joint Ventures
CHAPTER: Profitability of JVs Abroad — A New Empirical Puzzle
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, MAURICIO JENKINS, and PETER ZÁMBORSKÝ, in Farok Contractor and…
Joint Venture Instability: Is It A Problem?
(Columbia Journal of World Business, 1997) Examines evidence of instability (or survival)…
Firm Ownership Preferences and Host Government Restrictions
(Journal of International Business Studies, 1990) Integrates two approaches to explanation of…
Ownership Structure of Foreign Subsidiaries
(Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1989) Examines how U.S. MNCs select…
Joint Ventures in the Face of Global Competition
(Sloan Management Review) Presents a framework to help managers decide when to…
Joint Venture Cycles: The Evolution of Ownership Strategies of U.S. MNEs, 1945-75
(in Cooperative Strategies in Internaitonal Business, eds. Farok Contractor and Peter Lorange,…
Innovation
CHAPTER: Entrepreneurship Through Mergers and Alliances — Schumpeter Remixed
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, in Sharon Matusik and Jeffrey Reuer (eds.), Chapter 4,…
Do Alliances Promote Knowledge Flows?
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, JOHN HAGEDOORN, and ADAM JAFFE, Journal of Financial Economics,…
Value Creation
CHAPTER: Profitability of JVs Abroad — A New Empirical Puzzle
By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, MAURICIO JENKINS, and PETER ZÁMBORSKÝ, in Farok Contractor and…
Acquiring Value: Strategies for M&A — HBR Webinar
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Webinar presented by HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Alliances, partnerships, acquisitions,…
How Divestments Create Value — The Case of Yahoo!
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Just as the M&A…
Sources of Joint Value — Questions About Pfizer-Allergan
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Pfizer and Allergan…
The Three Laws of Business Combinations — Excerpt of Remix Strategy
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | When you look…
Working Papers
Edith Penrose in the New Economy
by BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES — Published in 2025 Strategic Management Review — Edith…
The Logic of Alliance Fads: Why Collective Competition Spreads
(Oxford University Press chapter, forthcoming) Alliances often seem to spread in waves….
Definitions
Alliances: Encyclopedia Definition
(Encyclopedia International Political Economy) An inter-firm alliance is an organizational structure to…
Partnership Strategies: Glossary of Terms
Unpublished (1999) Researchers and managers use a bewildering array of terms to…