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- Managing Variability in a Supply Chain: An Inventory Control Perspective
- Increased globalization, improved information technology and production technologies, low costs at distant destinations, environmental claims, improved transportation and communication are all important factors that have led to increased competition. When focusing on core competencies only, suppliers are more and more often included in partnerships in order to improve products more...
- White papers 2002-11-08
- Why Theories of Firm Boundaries Need an Evolutionary Process Dimension?
- This paper addresses a process gap in economic theories of firm-boundaries by explaining switching costs during governance change in the case of outsourcing. Three perspectives on firm boundaries are considered: modern property right theory, modern transaction cost theory, and evolutionary theory. The first explains firm boundaries by the optimal allocation...
- White papers 2001-05-16
- Modularity and Interface Management: The Case of Schindler Elevators
- Modularity refers to the scheme by which interfaces shared among components in a given product architecture are standardized and specified to allow for greater reusability and commonality sharing of components among product families. The management of innovation through modular product architecture strategies is gaining increasing importance for firms, not only...
- White papers 2001-01-17
- Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies: An Exploration
- Explanation of magnitude and pattern of Foreign Direct Investment FDI into developing economies requires a complex ray of factors. This is because these economies differ significantly from developed economies and also among each other in economic development levels and endowment of market institutions. This paper attempts to develop a conceptual...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Selection in Corporate Venturing
- This paper argues that the ability to select more profitable ventures while at the same time avoid selecting away promising ventures is dependent on not only the choice of selection strategies but increasingly on the corporate venture firms' selection capacity. This capacity is largely a function of the committed participation...
- White papers 2005-05-04
- Divestment Seen Through the Lens of International Business Strategy
- This paper deals with divestment, i.e. the closure or sell-off of units in foreign locations, or conversely units owned by foreign firms. Such actions are discussed from the perspective of the firms making such decisions, and divestment assessments are looked at through the lens of international business strategy. Based on...
- White papers 2003-11-06
- The Strategic Use of Trademarks
- Virtually nothing has been written on the use of trademarks as a strategy of appropriability. This paper investigates this topic in an exploratory manner, arguing that trademarks are not only important in their own right in industries where quality and status matter, but also supplement other strategies, such as patents...
- White papers 2005-03-10
- Hands Off!: How Organizational Design Can Make Delegation Credible
- Credible delegation of discretion obtains when it is a rational strategy for managers not to overrule employee decisions that are based on delegated decision rights or renege on the level of delegated discretion and this is common knowledge. Making delegation of discretion credible becomes a crucial issue when organizations want...
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Organizing Process - Competency and Change in Public Sector Work Practices
- This paper discusses the processes of individualization and organizing being carried out under what one might see as an emerging regime of change. The underlying argumentation is that in certain processes of change, competence becomes questionable at all times. The hazy characteristics of this regime of change are pursued through...
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Entrepreneurship And The Economic Theory Of The Firm
- Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Knight and some Austrian school economists aligns naturally with the theory of the firm. Because judgment cannot be purchased on...
- White papers 2004-08-17
- Value Creation Through IT-Supported Knowledge Management?
- Although many consulting companies have introduced IT-supported knowledge-management systems, and proponents of the literature continue to advocate knowledge management as a key to competitive advantage in consultancies, many knowledge management systems have fallen short of expectation in companies that have adopted them. This paper reports such an empirical, explorative study...
- White papers 2003-02-28
- Perspectives On Multinational Enterprises In Emerging Economies
- MultiNational Enterprises MNEs play a pivotal role in the development of many emerging economies. In consequence, they became the focus of scholarly research by economists and policy analysts. In contrast, international business scholars have been comparatively uninterested in analyzing this role of MNEs. Yet, they could make important contributions to...
- White papers 2004-03-10
- International Business And Government Relations In Central And Eastern Europe
- The transition period has been a period of extraordinary politics. This paper discusses how institutional change has created bureaucratic barriers to entry, but also windows of opportunity for Foreign Direct Investment FDI. The high costs and high investment risks associated with FDI in Central and Eastern Europe CEE are a...
- White papers 2005-12-03
- Foreign Investment Strategies And Sub-National Institutions In Emerging Markets
- Foreign investors entering emerging markets have to take strategic decisions on where and how to set up operations. These decisions have to accommodate institutional conditions that vary not only between countries, but also within the host economy. This paper offers a theoretical framework to analyse how institutions in an emerging...
- White papers 2006-06-08
- Method Emergence In Practice - Influences And Consequences
- This paper explores the relationship between what influences and shapes the unique and locally situated method-in-action and how it consequently emerges. Based on a synthesis of prominent Information Systems Development literature, an analytical framework is developed. The framework is organised into three perspectives: The structuralist; The individualist and the interactive...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Foreign Direct Investment And The Environment: A Transaction Cost Perspective
- Traditionally, the extant literature on foreign direct investment and the natural environment has conceived the investment-environment nexus in terms of foreign investors exploiting weak environmental regulations and abundant natural resources in developing host countries. This paper provides a corrective to the literature's focus on locational factors as determinants of foreign...
- White papers 2003-06-12
- Long Live the "Hybrid": What Transaction Costs Economics Left Unseen
- Inquiring into Transaction Costs Economics' TCE definition of uncertainty has been pushed by insights into the organisation of activities, as they are observed for example in advertising agencies when producing advertising campaigns. A curiosity over the reasoning of the transaction costs theory regarding hybrid governance structures' ability to cope with...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Strategic IT-Outsourcing: What Do We Know and Need to Know?
- This paper presents a review of existing theoretical perspectives and empirical work on strategic IT outsourcing. By presenting the main findings of various recent studies and elaborating on current research gaps it conveys a picture of the past research, the present findings and the future applications of IT outsourcing. Prior...
- White papers 2003-03-26
- Creative Knowledge Environments in the Innovation System
- The aim of the research project reported in this paper is to increase the understanding for factors that are crucial for creative working processes and innovative results in knowledge organizations. Its objective is to make a contribution to the construction of a model, which describes how to increase creativity with...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Determining International Strategic Alliance Per-Formance
- This paper considers the relationship between subjective measures of international alliance performance and a set of variables. The empirical study, based on a web-survey, investigates a sample of Danish partner firms engaged in 48 equity joint ventures and 70 non-equity joint ventures with international partners. The results show a significant...
- White papers 2002-09-24
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