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Decentralizing Cross-Functional Decisions: Coordination Through Internal Markets

Kouvelis, Panagiotis; Lariviere, Martin A. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 8, pp. 1049-1058

own individual incentives and may consequently fail to maximize the overall profits of the firm. We examine this issue in … incentives. We illustrate the flexibility of the scheme by applying it to several models in the operations management literature. …

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Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard-Setting Organizations

Rysman, Marc; Simcoe, Timothy - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 11, pp. 1920-1934

Voluntary standard-setting organizations (SSOs) are a common feature of systems industries, where firms supply interoperable components for a shared technology platform. These institutions promote coordinated innovation by providing a forum for collective decision making and a potential solution...

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Managing Delegated Search Over Design Spaces

Erat, Sanjiv; Krishnan, Vish - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 3, pp. 606-623

Organizations increasingly seek solutions to their open-ended design problems by employing a contest approach in which search over a solution space is delegated to outside agents. We study this new class of problems, which are costly to specify, pose credibility issues for the focal firm, and...

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Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the Benefits to Startups Participating in Open Standards Development

Waguespack, David M.; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 2, pp. 210-223

This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that participation might increase a startup's chances of a liquidity event: gaining...

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Modeling Coordination in Organizations and Markets

Malone, Thomas W. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 10, pp. 1317-1332

This paper describes a simple set of coordination structures that model certain kinds of information processing … involved in organizations and markets. Four generic coordination structures are defined: product hierarchies, functional … production costs, coordination costs, and vulnerability costs. This model is unusual in that it includes detailed definitions of …

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Comments on "Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect"

Lee, Hau L.; Padmanabhan, V.; Whang, Seungjin - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 12_supplement, pp. 1887-1893

In this commentary, we trace back how we pursued research on the bullwhip effect, which resulted in the article published in Management Science. We reflect on the evolution of this concept, the impact that our work has had on industry, the way our work has been used in the teaching of supply...

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Facilitating Coordination in Customer Support Teams: A Framework and Its Implications for the Design of Information Technology

Rathnam, Sukumar; Mahajan, Vijay; Whinston, Andrew B. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 12, pp. 1900-1921

The management of coordination gaps is critical to the effective functioning of a customer support team. To address the … managerial challenge of designing Information Technology (IT) to facilitate coordination in customer support teams, this paper … develops a framework describing the drivers of coordination gaps in customer support teams. Measures for the characteristics of …

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The Quantity Flexibility Contract and Supplier-Customer Incentives

Tsay, Andy A. - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 10, pp. 1339-1358

supply chain. This paper models the incentives of the two parties, identifying causes of inefficiency and suggesting remedies …

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Subcontracting, Coordination, Flexibility, and Production Smoothing in Aggregate Planning

Kamien, Morton I.; Li, Lode - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 11, pp. 1352-1363

with quadratic cost functions and coordination subcontracts; linear decision rules for production, inventory, and …

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Coordinating Investment, Production, and Subcontracting

Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 7, pp. 954-971

We value the option of subcontracting to improve financial performance and system coordination by analyzing a …

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