Claudio Giachetti
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Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition Open
Our study, grounded in the multimarket competition, knowledge management, and technological change literature, investigates how multimarket contacts among multinational enterprises—i.e., the extent to which rival multinational enterprises …
Navigating windows of opportunity: The role of international experience Open
Research Summary Scholars have noted that pronounced changes in consumer demand and technology often offer firms temporary opportunities to strengthen their performance vis‐à‐vis rivals. This article contributes to the literature on window…
International experience and imitation of location choices: The role of experience interpretation and assessment and its board‐level microfoundations Open
Research summary Drawing on the information‐based imitation and information‐processing perspectives, we examine how experience interpretation and assessment—and in particular its board‐level microfoundations—affects the relationship betwee…
Do I see what you see? Institutional quality, action observability, and multimarket contact in the global mobile phone industry Open
Research Summary Drawing on signaling theory and the international business literature that addresses the role of institutions, we argue that multinational enterprises (MNEs) that use multimarket contact (MMC)—that is, meet the same compet…
How Business Models Evolve in Weak Institutional Environments: The Case of Jumia, the Amazon.Com of Africa Open
We advance research on the antecedents of business model design by integrating institutional and imitation theories to explore how the business model of new ventures evolves in a weak institutional environment. Based on a case study of Jum…
Will rivals enter or wait outside when faced with litigation risk? Patent litigation in complex product industries and international market entry Open
A spiral of patent infringement litigation among rival firms is a phenomenon often observed in complex product industries, where products comprise numerous separately patentable elements. Theoretically grounded in the awareness–motivation–…
How much control do firms exercise over their resources when entering emerging markets? The influence of institutional voids on entry mode degree of control Open
The international management literature has presented inconclusive results about the effect of institutional voids in a host country on entrant firms’ resource commitment. With the lens of institutional theory and transaction cost theory, …
Information-based imitation of university commercialization strategies: The role of technology transfer office autonomy, age, and membership into an association Open
We investigate whether university technology transfer offices, that is, divisions responsible for the commercialization of academic research, imitate their industry peers when designing their commercialization strategy. We borrow from info…
Red Queen Competitive Imitation in the U.K. Mobile Phone Industry Open
This paper uses Red Queen competition theory to examine competitive imitation. We conceptualize imitative actions by a focal firm and its rivals along two dimensions: imitation scope, which describes the extent to which a firm imitates a w…