TY - GEN
T1 - Companies’ Choice of Collaboration Forum
T2 - A Choice Experiment in the IoT Standardization Context
AU - Wiegmann, Paul Moritz
AU - de Vries, Henk
AU - Eggers, Felix
N1 - Meanwhile published in Research Policy.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Companies’ interorganizational relationships often include engagement in multi-firm forums, yet little is known about how they choose these networks. We investigate decision criteria in a standardization context where this strategic choice may determine firms’ ability to shape markets through standards. We derive hypotheses about decision criteria related to actors in the forum and its governance from three theory streams (networks, multi-sided markets, forum shopping). We test these hypotheses in a qualitative pre-test and a choice experiment with 141 standardization professionals in the Internet of Things field. Our results contribute to the literature on interorganizational relationships by indicating what firms value in collaboration forums and how they weigh decision criteria.
AB - Companies’ interorganizational relationships often include engagement in multi-firm forums, yet little is known about how they choose these networks. We investigate decision criteria in a standardization context where this strategic choice may determine firms’ ability to shape markets through standards. We derive hypotheses about decision criteria related to actors in the forum and its governance from three theory streams (networks, multi-sided markets, forum shopping). We test these hypotheses in a qualitative pre-test and a choice experiment with 141 standardization professionals in the Internet of Things field. Our results contribute to the literature on interorganizational relationships by indicating what firms value in collaboration forums and how they weigh decision criteria.
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.12141abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.12141abstract
M3 - Conference proceeding
T3 - Academy of Management Proceedings
SP - 12141
BT - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2020(1)
PB - Academy of Management
CY - Briarcliff Manor, NY
ER -
