The institutional and industrial evolution of the 1980s and 1990s considerably transformed the governance structures of production through globalization, financialization and the accentuation of competitive pressures. The governance structures of inter-firm relationships have changed greatly;...

Computer-owners combine complementary goods to a computer-system. They exchange data with others and between different applications. These interdependencies lead to three different network effects, which are explained in the framework of Hotelling models. In the framework of a one-dimensional...

The boundaries of a firm determine the range of authority of the managers of the firm and of any outsiders who interact with the firm. Determining where the boundaries lie is even in theory a matter of some debate. However, in practice understanding where the boundaries of a firm lie is a matter...

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate? And, once the decision to cooperate is made, how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive...

This paper analyses the inter-firm R&D network formed in the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry during the 1990s from different perspectives: theoretical network formation, firm's structural positions and its collaborations at the entire network level, and the determinants for firm's...

When most of academic approaches of inter-firm cooperation focus essentially on the cooperative relation, the aim of this paper is to show, building upon L. Boltanski and P. Bourdieu's works, that it is necessary, in order to understand the mechanisms of cooperation, to study above the relation...

В статье рассматривается межфирменная кооперация как метод управления производственными запасами на предприятиях автомобилестроительной отрасли. Показаны...

Organizational life in the 21st century means being able to meet the challenges posed by a rapidly changing environment. The focus of organization innovation has changed from attempting flexibility through complex internal arrangements, like matrix designs, to attempting flexibility in external...