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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2011
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822903
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314275
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Global Sourcing
Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2004
We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082766
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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021
I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations with heterogeneous final good producers and incomplete contracts. As firms learn about the conditions abroad, the increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332242
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213481
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Social Capital, Reputation and Contract Duration in Buyer-Supplier Networks for Information Technology Outsourcing
Ravindran, Kiron - 2015
Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing. Contract duration is a strategic decision that aligns interests of clients and vendors … trustworthiness and reliability, which is important in longer term arrangements. We analyze a dataset of 22039 outsourcing contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037393
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Do Formal Contracts and Relational Governance Function as Substitutes or Complements?
Poppo, Laura; Zenger, Todd - 2003
While transaction cost economists have generally argued that hazardous exchange conditions warrant complex contracts or vertical integration, other scholars have argued that trust or relational forms of governance effectively support exchange. These scholars view relational governance as a...
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The Stability of Offshore Outsourcing Relationships : The Role of Relation Specificity and Client Control
Manning, Stephan; Lewin, Arie Y.; Schuerch, Marc - 2012
Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing … commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service … and training, and by involving clients in outsourcing operations, thereby increasing relation specific joint equity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186470
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IT outsourcing in Finnish business
Maliranta, Mika (contributor); Rouvinen, Petri (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. -- Labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003714916
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Friends and Profits Don't Mix : The Performance Implications of Repeated Partnerships
Holloway, Samuel S. - 2014
construction projects. Controlling for project attributes that affect the level of outsourcing, we posit that a greater proportion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043591