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London ; New York : Routledge, 2002

Online-Ressource (287 p)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Some introductory reflections; Alliance capitalism?; Reappraising the eclectic paradigm in an age of alliance capitalism; On knowledge and power in the theory of the firm; Blurring boundaries: new inter-firm relationships and the emergence of networked, knowledge-based oligopolies; Joint ventures, alliances, and hierarchical integration; The evolution of collaborative activity in the firm

Testing theories of joint ventures: Why Japanese investors in the United States choose joint ventures over acquisitionsA simultaneous equations model of technological agreements and infra-mural RD; Technological change and vertical integration: Analysis of international vertical integration in multinational companies; Supply relations; Cost, quality, and learning based governance of buyer-supplier relations; Japanese 'transplant' supplier relations: are they transferable? Should they be?; Customer-subcontractor relationships; Index

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Some introductory reflections; Alliance capitalism?; Reappraising the eclectic paradigm in an age of alliance capitalism; On knowledge and power in the theory of the firm; Blurring boundaries: new inter-firm relationships and the emergence of networked, knowledge-based oligopolies; Joint ventures, alliances, and hierarchical integration; The evolution of collaborative activity in the firm

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Print version: Changing Boundaries of the Firm

978-0-415-15470-3 ; 0-203-44340-3 ; 0-415-15470-7

978-0-415-15470-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

646758055

978-0-203-44340-8 ( : 205.74 (NL))

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HD30.3 .C455 1998eb ; HD30.3

302.3/5 ; 658.406 ; 302.3/5     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Interorganizational relations.. ; Communication in organizations.. ; Industrial concentration ; Communication in organizations ; Interorganizational relations

Communication in organizations ; Industrial concentration ; Interorganizational relations ; Electronic books

This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms.The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the n