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Does Contract Complexity Limit Opportunities? Vertical Organization and Flexibility

Pennings, Enrico - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

The vertical organization of production entails a range of make-or-buy decisions of intermediate goods that are influenced by the difficulty of writing contracts with a potential supplier. When contracting causes high transaction costs, a firm can decide to vertically integrate the production of...

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Optimal contract orders and relationship-specific investments in vertical organizations

Parlane, Sarah; Ying Yi Tsai - 2013

This paper characterizes the optimal contracts issued to suppliers when delivery is subject to disruptions and when they can invest to reduce such a risk. When investment is contractible dual sourcing is generally optimal because it reduces the risk of disruption. The manufacturer (buyer) either...

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To Standardize Enterprise Data or Not? An Economic Analysis of Flexibility versus Control

Velu, Chander K.; Madnick, Stuart E.; Alstyne, Marshall … - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2006

unit data control grants flexibility to react to rapidly changing environments. Many data standardization efforts fail … because they do not fully take into account the value of flexibility and ownership incentives. We use a real options based … flexibility, which is an intangible information asset. Second the derived propositions would help senior management to more …

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Evaluation of flexibilities in outsourcing agreements through the real option approach

Mersin, Dogan; Polat, Seçkin - In: International journal of applied management science 5 (2013) 2, pp. 101-128

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Financing flexibility : the case of outsourcing

Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele; Rossini, Gianpaolo - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 76 (2017), pp. 35-65

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Outsourcing flexibility under financial constraints

Choe, Chong-mu; Ju, Ming; Trigeorgis, Lenos; Zhang, … - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 67 (2021), pp. 1-20

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Relationship flexibility in a 3PL context : impacts of network embeddedness, guanxi, and explicit contract

Chen, Haozhe; Zemanek, James E. <Jr.>; Mai, Enping; Tian, Yu - In: Journal of marketing channels : ... distribution … 22 (2015) 4, pp. 253-264

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IT contract flexibility and negotiator incentives

Mukhopadhyay, Tridas; Walden, Eric; Thompson, Mark A. - In: Managerial and decision economics : MDE ; the … 38 (2017) 3, pp. 291-301

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Foreign operation mode flexibility : tradeoffs and managerial responses

Petersen, Bent; Benito, Gabriel R. G.; Welch, Lawrence S. - In: International journal of the economics of business 28 (2021) 2, pp. 281-307

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The mediating role of outsourcing in the relationship between speed, flexibility and performance : a Saudi Arabian study

Ferrer, Mario; Santa, Ricardo - In: International journal of productivity and quality … 22 (2017) 3, pp. 395-412

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