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design, and statistical analysis techniques were examined as part of theory development and testing. The review establishes a … empirical testing, a greater variety of moral frameworks and wider use of marketing exchange theory is needed. The review …
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Indigenous emerging economy (EE) firms are increasingly competing in global markets or against multinational corporations (MNCs) in their home markets. But their institutional context at the national and local levels often suffers from what has been termed “institutional weakness” which is...
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Much of the literature on corporate performance focuses on institutional restructuring, and implicitly assumes that constitutional factors are determined exogenously. Existing theories of the firm—whether a “goal paradigm” or an “exchange paradigm”—provide useful insights; but we...
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identify the different members of the firm as a community, drawing from corporate citizenship literature and stakeholder theory …
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Since the second half of the past century, increasingly flexible organizational forms have been appearing among firms. However, while hierarchies are easily described, too few mathematical tools are available for flexible organizations. In this article, two measures are proposed in order to...
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The paper deals with development of a general theory of the firm. It discusses the demand for such a theory, reviews … existing approaches to its generalization, and offers a new variant of general theory of the firm based on the contract theory …. The theory is based on minimization of opportunistic behaviour determined by the material structure of production (a …
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The paper studies through the lens of the economic theory of the firm the development of two managerial disciplines … disciplines from the economic theory of the firm, and in what extent their implications may be useful for the latter. …
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This article surveys some arguments brought forward in defense of the theory of perfect competition. While some critics … propose that the theory of perfect competition, and thus also the theory of the firm, are logically flawed, (mainstream …
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