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The current paper explores the use of the Resource-Based View in the analysis of the firm boundary decision. It is proposed that resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable are those that have the least likelihood of being outsourced. This proposition is tested...
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Outsourcing is one of the organizational practices that have increased in popularity over the past decade, even in the … public sector. However, management control literature gives a little attention to this new form of organization. Two … paradigms dominate the inter-organizational management control literature. The transactional approach based on the Transaction …
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The aim of this article is to identify management control archetypes in an outsourcing context and contingency factors … combinations of Ouchi's (1980) management control archetypes (control by the market and the bureaucracy and control by the clan and … institutional, economic and strategic context of the relation and also to the control system complexity and cost in each outsourcing …
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The independence of expert evaluators in finance, advocated by financial theory, does not resist sociological investigation. The proximity of knowledge and expertise and collusion of interests of evaluators and evaluated people are attributable to the origin of financial firms considered, the...
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The outsourcing of activities raises the problem of the management of buyer-supplier relationships, and in particular …
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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 research aims to analyze the role of positive and negative emotions in decisions about supplier switching in the hotel industry. It shows how, in addition to switching costs and relational norms, positive emotions, such as happiness, empathy, gladness and satisfaction, also act as switching...
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asset specificity at which firms switch from in-sourcing to outsourcing. Capabilities have two effects: they result in a …
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