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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Firm Boundaries"”.
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Essays on Firm Boundaries and Firm Organization in Transition countries
… on organizational decisions within and across firms. Understanding such decisions through both empirical studies and theory is highly important. It may enable us to understand the microeconomic roots of macroeconomic patterns. This thesis conducts at the empirical analysis of organizational …
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Beyond Firm Boundaries: Exploring The Interdependence Between Supply Chain Partners
<p>Firms have increasingly become more tightly coupled with one another and reliant upon their supply chain partners in recent decades. This research examines this trend by evaluating the extent to which supply chain partners are able to directly influence one another`s performance as well as …
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What do firm boundaries do? : employment relationships and transaction governance in internal and outsourced IT projects
Firm boundaries have been the subject of much scholarly interest in recent years, as firms increasingly hire external, "contingent" workers and outsource previously core activities. However, little empirical research has directly studied what happens differently inside the firm's boundaries, versus …
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An Investigation of Multisided Digital Platform Boundaries
… in recent years, as they have disrupted how firms create and capture value and have blurred their boundaries. Firms implementing MSDPs may make different boundary decisions when configuring the complements of their MSDPs. In some cases, they build complements in-house, while in others, they …
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Determinants of Success of the Open Source Selective Revealing Strategy: Solution Knowledge Emergence
Recent research suggests that firms may be able to create a competitive advantage by deliberately revealing specific problem knowledge beyond firm boundaries to open source meta-organisations such that new solution knowledge is created that benefits the focal firm more than its competitors (Alexy, …
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Three essays on the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations
… it is an essential ingredient of pharmaceutical firms' technology strategy. The first essay studies why pharmaceutical firms partly contract out the operational aspects of clinical trials to Contract Research Organizations. Using detailed project-level data, I find that (1) outsourcing intensity …
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Three Empirical Studies on Digital Innovation Management: New Organizing Logic of Antecedents and Consequences of Innovation
… besides focusing on internal dynamics within firm boundaries, external dynamics also increases in importance. Therefore, this dissertation aims to examine the new organizational logic of digital innovation management, investigating its antecedents and consequences. In particular, Essays 1 and …
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Learning at the boundary of the firm : learning-by-interaction between a manufacturer and its users
… learning-by-interaction at the boundary of a firm, challenges the conventional perspectives - unidirectional and iterative - that failed to recognize the interactive learning process that happens between a manufacturer and its users. At the center of collaborative development of new products …
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Integration and corporate investment
… theoretically and empirically, the effect of firm boundaries and organizational processes on internal resource allocation and corporate investment. In the first chapter, I develop an equilibrium model of internal competition for corporate resources and show that managers of integrated firms …
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The design and management of diverse affiliations : an exploration of international hotel chains
… market entry methods by international service firms is creating complex and compound organisations that operate within and across organisational boundaries. These organisations face variable risks related to control, resource commitment, flexibility and dissemination across their diversely …
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When theology calls for more : how Evangelical churches address the needs of urban communities
… service in the community. However, they do have firm boundaries and principles based on their theological beliefs, which are not negotiable. Consequently, organizations that seek to partner or collaborate in some way with evangelical churches to address the needs in their communities must respect …
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Inter-firm collaboration in the implementation of structural innovations in building construction
… collaboration within a vertically integrated firm, but one of inter-firm collaboration over the life of a project because dozens of specialized firms typically work together on the delivery of built facilities. Thus, firm boundaries and other factors can affect the success of the …
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The impact of strategic investment on success of capital-intensive ventures
… and to drive innovation outside the traditional firm boundaries. Recent years have witnessed emergence of a new wave of corporate venture capital funds that increasingly interact and compete with traditional venture capital firms in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The incremental benefits of …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… dissertation consists of three essays. Using firm-level data from Korea, the first and second chapter examine Korean firms' offshoring strategies and the impact of these offshoring activities on firm-level employment in Korea. In the third chapter, the recent pattern of wage inequality is …
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Under Age: Redefining Legal Adulthood in 1970s America
… to the minimum age laws that define the legal boundaries between childhood and adulthood in the United States. By altering the voting age and the legal age of majority during the early 1970s, legislators effectively lowered the legal age of adulthood from twenty-one to eighteen, and launched a …
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The relationship between knowledge and power in the work of Amitav Ghosh
… the Western obsession with defining nations and firm boundaries on maps has reified a view of space as a territory to be owned, measured and divided. Chapter Three argues that in In an Antique Land, Ghosh turns his attention to prevailing perceptions of time. As well as exploring Ghosh's …
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… and knowledge intensive business landscape, each firm’s internal and external network embeddedness shapes its ability to create and recombine knowledge into valuable innovations. The chapter begins by presenting the long standing discussion of whether innovation benefits more from open networks, …
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Collaboration in the telecommunications industry: a case study
… of performance in their dealings with other firms they must move from contract based models predicated on the pursuit of cost efficiencies and the exploitation of bargaining power to more collaborative or partner based models. These new exchange relationships pursue greater organisational …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY
… on knowledge transfer and innovation related firm responses with an emphasis on firms’ especially, Multinational Enterprises’ (MNEs) market strategies such as ownership, governance and location choices and their non-market strategies such as political networking and stakeholder management. I'm …