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Leveraging Offshore IT Outsourcing by SMEs through Online Marketplaces

Radkevitch, Radkevitch, U.L.; van Heck, van Heck, H.W.G.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

Following their larger counterparts, an increasing number of small firms outsource their IT tasks to lower cost offshore destinations. For small firms, however, offshore outsourcing is a difficult undertaking as it involves high transaction costs. Online marketplaces for IT services, which have...

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The Current State of Research on Networks in China’s Business System

Meuer, Meuer, J.; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

networks has developed significantly during the last decades in regards to analytic techniques, number of research projects …, and accumulated findings. While research on networks in China has always received much attention – not least because … networks are (still) considered one of the major forces behind the country’s socio-economic change – this development has also …

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Buyer Commitment and Opportunism in the Online Market for IT Services

Radkevitch, Radkevitch, U.L.; van Heck, van Heck, H.W.G.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

Companies increasingly outsource IT-related tasks using reverse auction mechanisms embedded into online marketplaces. However, a considerable proportion of auctions at these marketplaces do not result in a contract between buyer and supplier. Extant literature mostly refers to costly bidding and...

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China’s Institutional Architecture: A New Institutional Economics and Organization Theory Perspective on the Links between Local Governance and Local Enterprises

Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

networks and we identify political management as a core competence of these two groups. While this contradicts the conventional …

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Global Diffusion of the Non-Traditional Banking Model and Alliance Networks: Social Exposure, Learning and Moderating Regulatory Effort

Cuntz, Cuntz, A.N.; Blind, Blind, K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being one explanatory factor for diffusion controlling for actor specific characteristics and embeddedness in the network. In order to explain how existing national regulation...

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Using Networks For Changing Innovation Strategy: The Case of IBM

Dittrich, Dittrich, K.; Duysters, Duysters, G.M.; de … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Large-scale strategic change projects in companies may be supported by using alliance networks. This paper shows that …

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Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H.; Elfring, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

technology-based firms are embedded in socio-economic networks with other companies, investors, universities, vocational …

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Clustering in ICT: From Route 128 to Silicon Valley, from DEC to Google, from Hardware to Content

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Manuel, D.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

One of the pioneers in academic entrepreneurship and high-tech clustering is MIT and the Route 128/Boston region. Silicon Valley centered around Stanford University was originally a fast follower and only later emerged as a scientific and industrial hotspot. Several technology and innovation...

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The evolution of high-technology in China after 1978: Towards technological entrepreneurship

Greeven, Greeven, M.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of China’s science and technology, their related institutions and use in the business world since the reforms started in 1978. Special attention will be given to the re-integration of high-technology into the private sector and the...

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Combining economic and social goals in the design of production systems by using ergonomics standards

Dul, Jan; de Vries, de Vries, H.J.; Verschoof, Verschoof, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

In designing of production systems, economic and social goals can be combined, if ergonomics is integrated into the design process. More than 50 years of ergonomics research and practice have resulted in a large number of ergonomics standards for designing physical and organizational work...

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