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perspective of both competence (learning) and the governance of relational risk, which includes risks of dependence and spillover …
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This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...
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Since the early 1990s international - or even global - outsourcing of intermediate products from suppliers has been propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused is beneficial for the buyer as well as for the...
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This paper focuses on governance modes for service development of mobile telephone networks (GSM, WAP, GPRS, UMTS … the service affects the choice of governance mode of new service development projects. Governance modes include internal … paper a model is developed for the governance mode of service development in different phases of the life cycles of the …
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alternative perspective on the purpose and boundaries of the firm. However, the competence view cannot ignore issues of governance … contribute to the development of theory and empirical research that connects governance and competence perspectives. …
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Moral outrage was the response of the Chinese press, when Cheng Kejie, one of the country's highest officials, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and former Governor of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was arrested on grounds of corruption on 25...
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Zhejiang province, and the various attributes (governance, quality control system, and strategy) of a watermelon cooperative in … physical asset specificity in accounting for governance structure choice in the current institutional setting. …
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This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It … relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk. For the governance of relations, i.e. the control of relational risk …
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There is a tendency to see trust and control by formal agreements as substitutes. According to transaction cost economics trust is unreliable, and some form of control is needed to reduce hazards of opportunism. According to others, high trust allows for a limited extent of formal control....
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enterprise as a system of attributes and the delineation of a governance structure in terms of ownership rights, control rights …
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