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What does it take to be good parent ? Opening the black-box of value creation in the unrealated multibusiness firm

Olivier, Gottschalg; Meier, Degenhard - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

This paper develops and tests new theory about the determinants of value creation in unrelated multibusiness firms from a resource-based perspective. The authors argue that the availability of "headquarter resources", which are at the basis of headquarter services provided to the business units,...

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Competence, specificity and outsourcing: impact on the complexity of the contract

QUELIN, Bertrand; BARTHELEMY, Jerome - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2002

This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts because specificity is generally considered as the most important transaction cost attribute. It also integrates external uncertainty in the model. External uncertainty is a...

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A comparative Test of the Efficiency, focus and Learning Perspectives of Outsourcing

Frédéric, DALSACE; Nicola C., DRAGONETTI; Karel, COOL - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2003

Despite the fact that vertical integration has been a key question of management studies for more than fifty years, we still do not have a unified, coherent view of outsourcing. In particular, multiple theoretical perspectives such as transaction cost economics, industrial organization, and...

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Moving Beyond Stylized Economic Network Models: The Hybrid World of the Indian Firm Ownership Network

Mani, Dalhia; Moody, James - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014

many network models of economic social structure ignore this feature and rely instead on stylized one … interorganizational ownership network as our case, we discover a composite – or “hybrid” – model of economic networks that combines … elements of prior stylized models. The network contains a disconnected periphery conforming closely to a “transactional” model …

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