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The electronic marketplaces, as an interorganizational entity, is not limited to a transactional dimension. Indeed, those companies that survived the initial consolidation have increasingly expanded their functions and contribute to a new competition dynamic. This new competitiveness has set off...
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Different types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created? In this book, an interdisciplinary team of authors provide an evolutionary vision of how markets are designed and shaped. Drawing on a series of case studies, they show that markets are far from perfect and natural...
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Outsourcing is one of the organizational practices that have increased in popularity over the past decade, even in the … outsourcing context and contingency factors that underlie them. For that purpose, we carried out an exploratory case study upon … three Moroccan, publicly owned, offices that are involved since 2000 in a large outsourcing plan. The results indicate that …
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The aim of this article is to identify management control archetypes in an outsourcing context and contingency factors … institutional, economic and strategic context of the relation and also to the control system complexity and cost in each outsourcing …
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decision to implement outsourcing/ vertical disintegration; the second highlights the emergence of a long-term trend in favour … of outsourcing. …
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This paper analyzes the interactions between vertical integration and (wholesale) spot, forward and retail markets in risk management. We develop an equilibrium model that fits electricity markets well. We point out that vertical integration and forward hedging are two separate levers for demand...
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On the basis of an in depth analysis of the flow of revenues within the music industry and of the emerging practices, we attempt to understand the logic at play in the current evolution of the structure of the industry. We claim that the record companies used to play a role that was useful for...
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The purpose is to study the effect of a low-price guarantee (PG) on store price image and store patronage intention. Two kinds of low-price guarantee are studied, a price-matching guarantee (PMG) where the price difference is refunded and a price-beating guarantee (PBG) where a retailer offers...
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