Title
Partnerships between Software Firms: Is There Value from Complementarities?
Abstract
In network-type industries companies can explore the existence of complementarities in different ways to create value and competitive advantage. Gao and Iyer (2006) introduce a new methodology, based on the software stack, and show that there is value in mergers and acquisitions between companies that produce complementary components of network systems. We apply the same methodology to a sample of Alliances and find that even though there is value in Alliances between companies that produce in adjacent layers of the stack, abnormal returns are higher when both participants produce on the same layer of the stack.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/HICSS.2008.344
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
different way,software firms,network system,complementary component,new methodology,abnormal return,network-type industries company,adjacent layer,competitive advantage,competitive intelligence
Competitive intelligence,Computer science,Competitive advantage,Knowledge management,Software,Mergers and acquisitions
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-3075-8
4
0.44
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucia S. Gao140.44
Bala Iyer2102472.28