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Empirical Tests Of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Nooteboom, Bart; Wuyts, Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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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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Research in the Management of Learning, Change and Relations

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

, innovation and change in organisations and, related to that: - the management of inter-organisational relations, alliances …

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Learning And Governance In Inter-Firm Relations

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It recognizes fundamental criticism of transaction cost economics (TCE), but preserves elements from that theory. Two kinds of relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk....

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Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm's Embedded Ties in Acquisitions

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Spedale-Latimer, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

target firm’s embedded ties in acquisitions. We identify four critical areas - communication, idiosyncratic investments …

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Do Foreign Greenfields Outperform Foreign Acquisitions or Vice Versa? An Institutional Perspective

Slangen, Slangen, A.H.L.; Hennart, J-F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Prior studies of the comparative performance of greenfields and acquisitions have advanced competing arguments, with … some arguing that greenfields should outperform acquisitions because acquisitions are costlier to integrate, and others … that acquisitions should outperform greenfields because greenfields suffer from a liability of newness. Moreover, while the …

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Applying Revenue Management to the Reverse Supply Chain

Fleischmann, Moritz; Ferguson, Ferguson, M.; Souza, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We study the disposition decision for product returns in a closed-loop supply chain. Motivated by the asset recovery process at IBM, we consider two disposition alternatives. Returns may be either refurbished for reselling or dismantled for spare parts. Reselling a refurbished unit typically...

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Coevolutionary Competence in the Realm of Corporate Longevity: How Long-lived Firms Strategically Renew Themselves

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Kwee, Kwee, Z.; Volberda, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

Understanding the phenomena of corporate longevity and self-renewing organizations has become an important topic in recent management literature. However, the majority of the research contributions focus on internal determinants of longevity and self-renewal. Using a co-evolutionary framework,...

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Intense Collaboration In Globally Distributed Teams: Evolving Patterns Of Dependencies And Coordination

Kumar, Kumar, K.; van Fenema, van Fenema, P.C.; von … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

As multi-national firms and major offshore outsourcing companies develop experience with global work, their globally distributed teams face the challenge of collaborating intensely without the common interaction advantages associated with collocated work. This chapter analyzes the sources of...

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Global Sourcing

Mol, M.J.; van Tulder, van Tulder, R.J.M.; Beije, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

Since the early 1990s international - or even global - outsourcing of intermediate products from suppliers has been propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused is beneficial for the buyer as well as for the...

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