Specializing in Generality: Firm Strategies When Intermediate Markets Work

The authors thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers of this journal for their comments and suggestions. They also acknowledge comments and suggestions from Ashish Arora, Francesco Castellaneta, Brent Goldfarb, Connie Helfat, Andy King, Tommaso Ramus, Scott Stern, and Giovanni Valentini as well as seminar participants at the AEA-NBER 2016 conference at Tsinghua University Beijing, Cass Business School writing retreat, Imperial Business School, NBER Productivity seminar, Smith Business School, Sumantra Ghoshal Strategy Conference, Tuck-Dartmouth, University of Florida Gainesville, and the Wharton Technology Conference. All errors remain, of course, theirs. Authors’ names are listed in alphabetical order. All authors contributed equally.