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Despite significant economic benefits of manufacture upgrade from original equipment manufacturing (OEM), through own design manufacturing (ODM) to own brand manufacturing (OBM), research on interfirm relationship development during the process of manufacture upgrade has remained...
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processes on a global scale. This study investigates the extent to which e-business tools of the e-marketplace are used by … channel members in the retail sector for business-to-business supply chain management (SCM). The study is based on a survey …
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In today's intense global competition, a firm's ability to learn from its networks of business relationships is an … resource linkages among business partners tied together by interconnected resources. This has the potential of increasing the … relationship value of a firm in terms of knowledge created through interactions among firms in the business network. Prior research …
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This conceptual article explores the ways in which strategy is being conceived in business networks. The dominant … integration between causal mechanism of business relationships and network context. It is suggested that an analysis of the …
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A review of the literature highlights that strategy analysis of business relationships based on the industrial … on relationship performance in a business network context. A total of 358 business relationships from UK-based food …
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Organizational norms as a set of embedded values and beliefs have long been recognized in literature to provide norms that bind individuals into collectivities. Drawing on resource dependence and relational marketing theories, the present study specifies five organizational norms: cooperative,...
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Globalization and the Internet are creating a new form of network organization characterized by networks of cooperating and competing firms. The concept of network organization advocates flexible and open organizational structures that would improve coordination among organizational units and...
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An important operational aspect of international business is the coordination of widely dispersed resources of their …
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In electronic markets, the Internet creates new network structures that enable firms to integrate cross-functional activities at relatively low cost and eliminate non-value-adding activities. However, there is little empirical evidence on how structural characteristics of network organization...
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In an increasingly globalised business environment, it is no longer adequate to analyse and develop supplier …-customer relationship portfolios without consideration of a firm's network relationships. While research in business relationships has … that includes four levels of business relationships, and integrates a resource-based view and industry determinants of …
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