Edith Penrose in the New Economy

by BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES — Published in 2025 Strategic Management Review  — Edith…

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…

Do Alliances Promote Knowledge Flows?

By BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, JOHN HAGEDOORN, and ADAM JAFFE, Journal of Financial Economics,…

How Alliances Reshape Competition

(Handbook of Strategic Alliances) Alliances are intended to help firms cooperate better…

Competitive Advantage in Alliance Constellations

(Strategic Organization) What determines the success of a firm competing as part…

Alliances: Encyclopedia Definition

(Encyclopedia International Political Economy) An inter-firm alliance is an organizational structure to…

The Logic of Alliance Fads: Why Collective Competition Spreads

(Oxford University Press chapter, forthcoming) Alliances often seem to spread in waves….

Joint Venture Instability: Is It A Problem?

(Columbia Journal of World Business, 1997) Examines evidence of instability (or survival)…

Alliance Strategies of Small Firms

(Small Business Economics) Concludes that small firms follow one of two alliance…

BOOK: The Alliance Revolution — The New Shape of Business Rivalry

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1996) In-depth study of the rise and…

Group versus Group: How Alliance Networks Compete

By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Collaboration in business is…

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,…