In the article "De-Diversification Activities of German Corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory", published in sbr in January 2006, Nicolai and Thomas offer some interesting hypotheses and empirical analyses on the occurrence of de-diversifications...

Research on the organization of inter-firm relationships has recently moved away from the discussion of equity- vs. non-equity-based forms of governance, turning now towards the examination of contractual design. However, empirical research on the contractual complexity of inter-firm...

We examine the relationship between the nature of assets involved in an alliance and the optimal configuration of contractual and relational governance mechanisms. Examination of governance choice and performance in the German telecommunications industry indicates that physical assets are more...

We hypothesize that trust is a moderator of the direct relationship between control and coordination concerns and the extent of contracting. Our results suggest that high trust weakens the positive relationship between control concerns and the extent of contracting, but reinforces the positive...

Unternehmenskooperationen sind von großer theoretischer und praktischer Bedeutung. Ihrer wachsenden Popularität stehen allerdings nicht unerhebliche Misserfolgsquoten gegenüber. Hierdurch rücken Fragen des adäquaten Kooperationsmanagements in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Thomas Mellewigt...

Die Autoren zeigen an aktuellen Themen der betriebswirtschaftlichen Organisations- und Entscheidungsforschung Möglichkeiten und Schwierigkeiten eines empirischen Zugangs auf. Der Teil Organisationsforschung enthält Beiträge, die neuere Organisationsformen empirisch untersuchen und...

The effect of uncertainty on governance choice remains a puzzle. In this paper we investigate the influence of behavioral uncertainty and ambiguity as determinants of alliance governance choice. We argue that different governance forms address different uncertainty problems: behavioral...