Julia Porter Liebeskind

TL;DR: The authors argue that firms have particular institutional capabilities that allow them to protect knowledge from expropriation and imitation more effectively than market contracting, and they argue that it is these generalized institutional capabilities which allow firms to generate and protect the unique resources and capabilities that are central to the strategic theory of the firm.

TL;DR: The authors argue that firms have particular institutional capabilities that allow them to protect knowledge from expropriation and imitation more effectively than market contracting, and they argue that it is these generalized institutional capabilities which allow firms to generate and protect the unique resources and capabilities that are central to the strategic theory of the firm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input, scientific knowledge, and find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether corporate restructuring resulted in increased specialization at the industry level during the 1980s and found that aggregate industry specialization declined very slightly at both the four-digit and two-digit level between 1981 and 1989.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend transaction cost economics by arguing that prior contractual commitments made by a firm can limit its ability to differentiate or change its governance arrangements in the future, a condition they termed governance inseparability.