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Collaboration, Innovation, and Contract Design
Jennejohn, Matthew - 2009
: how do contracts, presumed to be susceptible to hold-up problems due to incompleteness, control production arrangements … that by their nature invite opportunism? Relying on publicly-available contracts taken from a number of industries, I argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721209
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Contract Duration in Subcontracting Agreements : Evidence from the Electronics Industry
López-Bayón, Susana; González Díaz, Manuel - 2004
This paper examines factors explaining the duration of inter-firm contracts from the transaction costs perspective … contractual hazards. Indefinite duration contracts, working as relational contracting, also provide protection and, additionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028651
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334032
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427568
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947
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Microfoundations of Resources : A Theory
Felin, Teppo - 2020
Where do new resources come from? We build on the premise that environments feature vast reservoirs of latent resources, uses and resource combinations. However, identifying this value can be costly and difficult. In this paper we consider the thought experiment of an endowment-less firm and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840077
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The Architecture and Design of Organizational Capabilities
Jacobides, Michael G. - 2008
behavioural foundations on cognitive limitations; show how these explain the division of labour within organizations; then move …. I then consider the division of labour between organizations; and conclude with the implications of inter- and intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727271
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The Inherent Limits of Organizational Structure and the Unfulfilled Role of Hierarchy : Lessons from a Near-War
Jacobides, Michael G. - 2006
Drawing on the Carnegie tradition, this paper examines how the Greek government and its military apparatus handled an incident involving the islets of Imia, which led to a near-war with Turkey in 1996. This came about not merely as a result of escalating circumstances: there were failures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734900
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Industry Change Through Vertical Dis-Integration : How and Why Markets Emerged in Mortgage Banking
Jacobides, Michael G. - 2004
By providing a theoretical framework that explains how and why vertical dis-integration happens, this inductive longitudinal analysis of the mortgage banking value chain sheds light on one of the least studied aspects of industry evolution. I find that gains from specialization set off a process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012785465