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Explaining Cooperative Enterprises through Knowledge Acquisition Outcomes
Dietl, Helmut M. - 2011
cooperative's outcomes with simple models of a vertically separated market of autonomous producers and of a centralized hierarchy … constellations, under which the cooperative outperforms the market and hierarchy forms of business organization. This article … advantages of cooperatives in the market-hierarchy continuum …
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The Organizational Nature of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Perspective from the Farm Problem Theory
Valentinov, Vladislav - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 33 (2005) 2
This article uses the farm problem theory as the framework for a comparative analysis of cooperative, market and … approach, the farm problem is the outcome of inappropriateness of hierarchical and market organization for effective … hierarchical and market types of economic organization. …
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The Organizational Nature of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Perspective from the Farm Problem Theory
Valentinov, Vladislav. - 2005
This article uses the farm problem theory as the framework for a comparativeanalysis of cooperative, market and …, the farm problem is the outcomeof inappropriateness of hierarchical and market organization for effective coordinationof … perform the coordinationfunctions not effectively delivered in agriculture by theconventional hierarchical and market types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445766
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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking
Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839218
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Building Global Knowledge Pipelines The Role of Temporary Clusters
Maskell, Peter; Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Anders - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans. Such events exhibit many of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839236
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Strategies on initial public offering of company equity at stock exchanges in imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with induced nonlinearities
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-building. We focus on the IPO initial underpricing, long-run performance and after market liquidity problems. 1. We propose that …
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919712
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The Organization of R&D in American Corporations: The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization
Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Rios, Luis A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
greater sales growth and higher market value. We discuss several theories that can explain these relationships, as well as …
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Assets or Liabilities of Foreignness? On the Role of TNCs in International Business
Freiling, Joerg; Laudien, Sven M. - ZenTra - Center for Transnational Studies - 2012
Cross-border activities of firms are said to be risky and complicated due to so-called 'liabilities of foreignness' (LOF) (Zaheer & Mosakowski 1997; Zaheer 1995). These LOF are difficulties firms in general have to face when acting in environments they are not familiar with. The existence of LOF...
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Delegation and Performance
Senyuta, Olena - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2013
This paper empirically investigates how the level of authority delegation is related to the performance of an organization. Decentralized, horizontal organizational structure takes advantage of more effcient decision making, mainly due to more efficient use of "soft" information. The cost of...
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