Table of Contents
What is strategy
3
Introduction of blocks
3
Part I TCE
3
Part II RBV
4
Part III institutions
5
3.1 new-institutional economics (NIE)
5
3.2 economic institutions
6
3.3 institutional theory
6
Part IV: Industrial organization
7
Part V OLI
8
Paper to read:
8
Session 1 Evolutionary Economics
8
List of papers
8
Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics Nelson & Winter
9
To read:
11
Evolutionary Trajectories in Petroleum Firm R&D
11
Dominance by birthright
12
Vertical (dis)integration of computer firms
12
Wrap up & take-away
13
Methods
13
Premises
13
Session 2 Real options
14
List of papers
14
Risk and uncertainty: basic typologies
14
Real option theory (ROT)
16
Take-away today
17
To read:
17
Session 3: Acquisitions and alliances: occurrence
17
List of papers
17
Corporate development activities in IB and in strategy
18
Papers on phenomenon instead of theory
18
Differences from last week: boundaries of firm
19
Villalonga and McGahan, 2005
20
What is integral?
20
Behavioral assumptions of strategy
20
Differences between NAICS code and SIC code
21
Wang and Zajac, 2007
21
Session 4 OLI and liability of foreinness
21
List of papers
21
OLI and its critiques
22
Asset bundling model
23
Liability of foreinness
24
Session 5: Uppsala model and its critiques
25
List of papers
25
Uppsala model and critiques
26
Nenito & Gripsrud 1992
28
Internationality and performance studies
28
Contractor 2003
29
Hennart 2007 critique on Multinationality/Performance literature
29