Changing Boundaries of the Firm

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

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Colombo, Massimo G.
Publisher:	London : Routledge
Subject:	Theorie der Unternehmung \| Theory of the firm \| Organisatorischer Wandel \| Organizational change \| Multinationales Unternehmen \| Transnational corporation
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (287 p)
Series:	Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record 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
ISBN:	978-0-415-15470-3 ; 0-203-44340-3 ; 0-415-15470-7 ; 978-0-203-44340-8 ; 978-0-415-15470-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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