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High-Tech Competition Puzzles. How Globalization Affects Firm Behavior and Market Structure in the Electronics Industry
Ernst, Dieter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
This paper addresses two puzzles related to industrial dynamics and competition. The first of these puzzles is that a high degree of globalization may well go hand in hand with increasing concentration. I show that one of the most globalized sectors of the electronics industry, hard disk drives...
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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking
Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to … in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation …. Initially, a corporation’s outsourcing is driven by a desire for cost minimization. Over a period of time the outsourcing …
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Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge
Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
The notion of distributed knowledge is increasingly often invoked in discussions of economic organization. In particular, the claim that authority is inefficient as a means of coordination in the context of distributed knowledge has become widespread. However, very little analysis has been...
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Authority and Discretion Tensions, Credible Delegation and Implications for New Organizational Forms
Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002
We analyze a key problem in organization theory and design, namely the potential tension between authority (i.e., the power to make decisions which guide the decisions of another person) and the discretion of employees (i.e., the ability of an agent to control resources including his own human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273129
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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing …, the paper aims at investigating whether the concurrence of TCE and industrial relationships has different outsourcing … correlations between an original outsourcing extent variable, on the one hand, and a number of proxies related to TCE, industrial …
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The General Profile of the Outsourcing Firm Evidence for a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
The paper aims at ‘embedding’ the outsourcing firm by considering it as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an … organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing … system in Emilia Romagna (that is, Reggio Emilia). The main result of the paper is that outsourcing decisions are indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273114
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Organizational and Innovative Flexibility Mechanisms and their Impact upon Organizational Effectiveness
Lund, Reinhard - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
This paper presents a lexical definition of firms' flexibility and its operationalization as used in the DISKO survey of 1900 Danish private firms. This operationalization is highlighted by data from a highly flexible firm which was visited in 1997 as part of a follow-up upon the questionnaire...
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Towards a Dynamic Resource-Based View Insights from Austrian Capital and Entrepreneurship Theory
Foss, Nicolai J.; Ishikawa, Ibuki - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
Over the last two decades the resource-based view (“RBV”) has become dominant in the strategic management field. It has often been observed that the RBV is lacking in the dynamic dimension. For example, processes of building competitive advantages by means of combining existing complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627326
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Modularization Assessment of Product Architecture
Mikkola, Juliana Hsuan - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
Modularization refers to the opportunity for mixing-and-matching of components in a modular product design in which the standard interfaces between components are specified to allow for a range of variation in components to be substituted in a product architecture. It is through...
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Starting an R&D Project under Uncertainty
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Peters, Bettina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
We model a two-stage R&D project with an abandonment option. Two types of uncertainty influence the decision to start R&D. Demand uncertainty is modelled as a lottery between a proportional increase and decrease in demand. Technical uncertainty is modelled as a lottery between a decrease and...
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