Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration

By Ronald J. Gilson, C. Sabel, Robert E. Scott. 2008

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Management Information Systems

1. Lyra J. Colfer
2. Carliss Y. Baldwin

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Lyra J. Colfer
2. Amrit Tiwana

In Strategy and Management

1. Carliss Y. Baldwin
2. Josh Whitford
3. Lyra J. Colfer
4. A. Schrank
5. Yochai Benkler
6. Kevin J. Boudreau
7. Jennifer Bair
8. Eric von Hippel

Citations in the corpus

• Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm (2017, background): “These practices developed among firms in various complex product and innovation-rich markets for a while, although they have gotten a boost from networked communications (Chesborough, 2003; Gilson et al., 2008, 2010; Powell, 1990, 1996).”
• The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “In another case studied by Gilson et al. (2009), Apple and SCI entered a contract committing the two firms to jointly assess the feasibility of each other’s innovations.”
• The Anatomy of Network Failure* (2011, background): “…what to build and how best to build it without help from others, they have been building new institutional mechanisms, including innovative forms of contracting, that force multiple parties to (monitor) each other’s relative competencies as they explore what to do next (Gilson et al. 2009).”