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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Asset Specificity"”.
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The impact of asset specificity on outsourcing performance : a disaggregated analysis by buyer-supplier asset specificity dimensions
lthough much research has been done on both asset specificity and outsourcing performance, most of the former has focused on the question of governance choice, while the latter has mainly concentrated on the skills required in managing the buyer-supplier relationship, leaving a glaring gap on the …
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Levels of asset specificity in relational contracting
… theory (whether static or dynamic) assumes assets are specific, but once this assumption is in place, the level of asset specificity has no bearing on the make-or-buy decision. While there are good reasons to doubt the universality of transaction cost economics’ prediction that the more …
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An agency/transactions-costs approach and application to vertical coordination arrangements in food and agricultural markets
… extremes, and contracts in between. By including asset specificity in a principal-agent model under conditions of uncertainty and different risk attitudes, the study's main argument has been that both individuals' characteristics (such as risk attitudes, leverage position, and size) and …
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Information Technology Outsourcing in U.S. Hospital Systems
… that sourcing behavior would be determined by asset specificity, uncertainty, the interaction of asset specificity and uncertainty, bargaining power, corporate strategy needs, and the strategic value of the IS functions outsourced.A cross sectional design was used, consisting of data from the …
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The use of internal audit findings in governmental organizations : an experimental study
… by Williamson (1985) as dimensions, namely: asset specificity, uncertainty, and frequency (i.e., size). With the existence of these dimensions, information is needed to direct production activities. Accordingly, the usefulness of internal audit operational information for economizing the …
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Multinational Firms' Ownership Structure Choices in Politically Risky Countries: An Integrative Strategic Management Approach
… intensity as a measure of higher intangible assets; and (b) lower political risk as measure by two distinct constructs. However, predictions of greater utilization of wholly-owned subsidiaries were not corroborated when there was: (a) higher R&D intensity; (b) higher asset specificity; and …
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The effect of outsourcing and situational characteristics on physical distribution transportation efficiency
… by suggesting the independent variables of asset specificity, uncertainty, and frequency/volume. Seven two-part research hypotheses examined the relationships among the independent variables to gain a greater understanding of the factors which drive the make versus buy decision for motor …
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Power, conflict, norms, and transaction costs: A synthetic transaction cost analysis of discrete and relational exchange behavior between channel members
… with particular types of exchange behavior. Asset specificity, frequency of transactions, bounded rationality, and the number of viable exchange partners are theorized to be related to exchange behavior. Exchange behavior is classified into two types: discrete and relational. Each type of …
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Sourcing by design : product architecture and the supply chain
… both ownership of and access to productive assets. Contracting between a manufacturing firm and a parts supplier is modeled using an incomplete contracting framework that synthesizes those of Grossman-Hart (1986) and Rajan-Zingales (1998). Optimal assignments of ownership and access at key …
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Wheat supply chain: a comparative study of sustainability issues concerning Brazil and the United Kingdom through Circular Economy lenses
… chain transactions have, as a general rule, low asset specificity, mid to high level of uncertainty, long-term contracts, and have varying levels of formalisation. <br/><br/>Transaction dimensions have multiple roles within CE diffusion influencers. The research showed that uncertainty in …
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Internal environment, organizational form and their impact on financial performance of hotel chains
… as capital scarcity, monitoring cost, and asset specificity--and organizational form--such as company owned, franchised, or combination of both--in an attempt to distinguish between high and low performing hotel chains. The key findings of this study indicate that hotel chains which showed …
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Factors that affect the electronic distribution channel structure
… multiple regression analysis revealed that human asset specificity is marginally correlated with the dependent variable and that behavioral uncertainty is positively correlated with the degree of performing the transaction internally. In the case of other two variables (environmental uncertainty …
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The intersection of geopolitics and strategic procurement: an exploration of sourcing in the defense industry from a six sigma perspective
… within defense acquisition architecture. High asset specificity, supplier concentration, institutional rigidity, and geopolitical uncertainty interact to produce structural inertia, limiting adaptive capacity. Strengthening defense semiconductor resilience therefore requires coordinated reform …
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A Causal Model of Linkages between Environment and Organizational Structure, and Its Performance Implications in International Service Distribution: An Empirical Study of Restaurant and Hotel Industry
… includes five factors -- monitoring uncertainty, asset specificity, cultural distance, political uncertainty, and economic uncertainty. The model is suggestive of a picture in which five environmental factors vie for affecting the choice of market entry modes. All five environmental factors were …
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Effects of privatization transaction strategy on performance : an examination of large-block shareholding and hybrid governance structures in developing economies
… when transacting under conditions of asset specificity and uncertainty, and is expected to improve privatization performance. This novel hypothesis, along with others, was tested successfully on longitudinal data for a larger sample of developing and emerging economy fixed-line …
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Supply Chain Network Evolution: Demand-based Drivers of Interfirm Governance Evolution
… that uncertainty functions as an antecedent of asset specificity rather than as an independent construct affecting governance outcome dependent upon which form of uncertainty is being considered. The successful simulation of supply chain networks as complex adaptive systems shift the focus from …
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Governance in global value chains: Exploring multiple layers of lead-firm orchestration
… as the market for integral components with high asset-specificity are merging into one global market with oligopolistic and oligopsonistic features. While some supply firms from the emerging markets have been able to utilize their business ties with western assembly firms to upgrade within the …
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Governance Structure Choices in Supply Chain Management Evidence from Spanish and Chinese Pork Chain Cases
… cost Hypothesis 3: The relationship between asset specificity and transaction cost is positive Hypothesis 4: Collaboration advantages and governance structure choice have positive relationship11 Hypothesis 5: Willingness to collaborate has positive relationship with collaboration advantages …
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Rational irrationality; the making of property decisions in firms as a part of resource allocation processes- a Korean example
… in property decision-making and recognising asset specificity, what a firm achieves is a new set of motivational assumptions which are distinguished from the theory of neoclassical economics on the nature of the firm. This new set of behavioural assumptions, derived from institutional …
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Buyer-supplier relationships in advanced manufacturing technology acquisition and implementation : a study in Malaysia
… attributes; namely level of complexity, level of asset specificity, and level of uncertainty, can affect the relationships between the technology buyer and suppler in AMT acquisition and implementation, and then to see the impact of different patterns of BSR on the two aspect of performance; …
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