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Chen, Daniel - 2020

We model a simple market setting in which fragmentation of trade of the same asset across multiple exchanges improves allocative efficiency. Fragmentation reduces the inhibiting effect of price-impact avoidance on order submission. Although fragmentation reduces market depth on each exchange, it...

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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

Lileeva, Alla - 2008

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

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Agents of Embeddedness

Azoulay, Pierre - 2003

explored in an in-depth qualitative examination of sourcing practices in drug development. The outsourcing of central … biotechnology firms, I explain why outsourcing deals take the form of embedded relationships in the first setting, and of seemingly …

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Acquiring Knowledge Within and Across Firm Boundaries : Evidence from Clinical Development

Azoulay, Pierre - 2003

Considerable evidence suggests that information is acquired more easily within than across firm boundaries. I explore why this is observed in the setting of clinical development. Since the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical firms have partly contracted out the operational aspects of clinical trials to...

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Does Managerial 'Outsourcing' Reduce Expense Preference Behavior? A Comparison of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Contract-Management in US Hospitals

Carey, Kathleen - 2002

This paper explores potential realization of gains by hospitals that are managed on a day-to-day basis by external organizations under formal contracts. It draws from the incentives literature, which postulates that managers of firms where ownership is separated from control will employ an input...

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...

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