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Prior literature is ambivalent about whether organizational complexity has positive or negative effects on firm performance. Using rich data on global service providers, we explore this ambivalence by disentangling performance consequences of different types of organizational complexity. We show...
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Prior research on project-based organizing in creative industries has emphasized the importance of regionally embedded institutions, creative networks and intermediaries in the development of regional project ecologies. Recently, film and television production in the United States has expanded...
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Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
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In recent years, the number of research and development (R&D) partnerships between firms has substantially increased. From the perspective of the individual firm, these partnerships are formed in order to share the risks and benefits of R&D. At the macro level, they result in a global spanning...
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We examine the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world’s largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora connections have traditionally overcome, diaspora...
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Despite sustained public debate about the current wave of offshoring, there has been limited international business research on its strategic implications. We examine the generation, appropriation and sustainability of economic rents that flow from competitive advantage in the face of...
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The paper complements entry mode research by dealing with the choice of alternative modes of governance in the specific …-equity co-operative mode of governance. The OLI paradigm is used as theoretical background of this analysis. Secondly, we … investigate whether this effect differs among firms using the one or the other governance mode. The study is based on separate …
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The industry of olive and olive oil has a sizeable weight in Andalusia since the ancient times. In the period of Roman Betica, the industry was the economic base of some very influential families in the arena of high politics. Hadrian, the emperor, was born in a wealthy family with interests in...
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Purpose—Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper identifies a clear “missing link” in this literature, and discusses implications for research and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy-making and...
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economically efficient governance-mechanism. This assumption is based on the availability of market governance as an alternative … mode of governance for organizing transactions. Since the enforcement of cross-border contracts by state-organized systems …
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