The Private Scope in Public–Private Collaborations: An Institutional and Capability-Based Perspective

All authors contributed equally. The authors are very grateful to the senior associate editor, Nicholas Argyres, and the two anonymous reviewers for insightful, constructive comments on and thoughtful guidance for the manuscript. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the International Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2014 and 2015), the International Conference of the Society for New Institutional Economics (2016), the International Conference of the Strategic Management Society (2014), the Academy of Management 2015 Annual Meeting, and the Public Management Research Association 2016 Conference. In addition, the authors thank all participants of these meetings and others, conferences, and research seminars. The authors are particularly grateful to Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo, Rodolphe Durand, Antonio Estache, Julien Jourdan, Peter Klein, Anita McGahan, Stéphane Saussier, and Paola Valbonesi for their valuable remarks on previous versions of this paper. The authors appreciate the help of international experts who answered their survey. The authors also warmly thank Francesco Bonelli, Camila Caldeira, Pedro Godoy, João Batista Leal, Fabio Lee, Antoine Levy, Francisco Muzetti, Elisabeth Osmont d'Amilly, and Charles Viennot for their helpful contributions as research assistants.