, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and … • trust and contracts as co-evolving and self-reinforcing phenomena • contractual functions other than coordination and …ch. 1. Introduction on contracts and trust in alliances -- ch. 2. Mainstream literature : coordination and control …

International Marketing, 17 (4), 90-105 -- Matthias Holweg, Andreas Reichhart, and Eui Hong (2011), 'On Risk and Cost in Global …: Managing the Efficiency and Adaptability Trade-Off', Strategic Management Journal, 33 (2), February, 189-216 -- Jeremy Howells … Marketing Research, 7, April, 1-17 -- Ronald F. Premuroso, Terrance R. Skantz, and Somnath Bhattacharya (2012), 'Disclosure of …

Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency -- Wide selection : a myth encountered -- Production malapropisms : the BMW … totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction …

first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents … a comprehensive review on alternative methodologies for analyzing firm efficiency …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in …

. Public organizations that fail are more often than not protected and allowed to continue even though their efficiency is …