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The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a period of substantial change with hospitals purchasing many physician practices (“vertical integration”). In theory, this vertical integration could improve quality by promoting care coordination but could also ...

Research suggests that multibusiness firms often misallocate financial resources. However, research also suggests that firms differ in how effectively they allocate a range of resources. We argue that some firms have a resource allocation capability that ...

In most platform environments, the exclusive provision of premium content from leading creators (superstars) is used as a strategy to boost user participation and secure a competitive edge vis-à-vis rivals. In this article, we study the impact of ...

This paper studies the prevalence of potential anticompetitive effects of vertical mergers using a novel data set on U.S. and international buyer-seller relationships and across a large range of industries. We find that relationships are more likely to ...

We investigate the welfare of intermediaries in oligopolistic markets where intermediaries offer additional services. We exploit the unique circumstance that in the empirical setting studied, outdoor advertising, consumers can purchase from manufacturers ...

We examine how Amazon's decision to vertically integrate its retail platform and last‐mile delivery operations can lead to anti‐competitive outcomes as a result of a deterioration in the operating efficiency in the routes served by a last‐mile ...

• Our analysis of Amazon's decision to vertically integrate its retail platform and last‐mile delivery operations shows significant adverse effects on the operating efficiency across service areas with last‐mile transportation routes.
• The negative ...

Although it is well established that vertical integration decisions have important consequences for firms, direct evidence on how vertical integration matters to firm innovation has been scarce. This study draws from seminal research on organizing for ...

This paper analyzes the entry of digital platforms such as Google into complementary hardware markets (e.g., internet service provision) using a game-theoretic model.

Access to a platform’s services often requires consumers to use a complementary hardware product or service, for example, internet service is needed to access the YouTube platform. Typically, such access products are provided by third-party firms. More ...

In the recent years, several research activities focused on the design, development and deployment of software architectures addressed to the monitoring, management and control of industrial plants, since the ongoing digitalisation of ...

In the world of industrial communication, OPC UA has now gained significant acceptance as a flexible, scalable and easy to use standard for communication across all the layers of the automation pyramid. On the other hand in the domain of the World Wide ...

This paper empirically investigates whether changes in product market competition affect firm boundaries. Exploiting regulation-induced shocks to entry barriers and differences in regulation enforcement across cities to obtain exogenous variation in ...

For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem. Anecdotally, at least, developers matter. Using a formal model of code spillovers, we show ...

Recent advances in information, operations and networking technologies have brought forth many economical and organisational opportunities for industrial enterprises. One of the enabling pillars for the exploitation of these opportunities hinges ...

In the last decade, improvements on single-core performance of CPUs has stagnated. Consequently, methods for the development and optimization of software for these platforms have to be reconsidered. Software must be optimized such that the available ...

It has a need to meet the demands of individual customers and solve the problems in current production caused by changing of the markets and the global influence and general competition situation. Utilization of the progress achieved in the information ...

We address the contested state of theory and the mixed empirical evidence on the relationship between turbulence and vertical scope by studying how turbulence affects the benefits of commitment from integrated development of components and the benefits ...

Although the stylized model of industry evolution suggests that firms transform from vertical integration to specialization over time, many industries still exhibit a continued persistence of integrated firms. In exploring this puzzle, I draw on ...

In 3D ICs, interlayer communication is achieved using through-silicon-vias (TSVs), which can suffer from cross coupling if placed naïvely. In this paper, cross coupling between TSVs is modeled, and a chip-scale TSV coupling mitigation scheme is ...

We develop a simple model that links the adoption of a productivity-enhancing technology to increased vertical integration and a less skilled workforce. We test the model’s key prediction using novel microdata on vehicle ownership patterns from the ...

Hybrid multi-domain computing systems are emerging. While the context-aware self-adaptive system models are under intensive research in individual computing domains, their integration into a collective adaptive system still remains a major challenge. ...