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作者:George, JM; Brief, AP
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作者:Capon, N
作者单位:Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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作者:Ghoshal, S; Moran, P
作者单位:INSEAD Business School
摘要:Transaction cost economics (TCE), and more specifically the version of TCE that hers been developed by Oliver Williamson (1975, 1985, 1993b), has become an increasingly important anchor for the analysis of a wide range of strategic and organizational issues of considerable importance to firms. As argued by some of its key proponents. the theory aims not only to explain but also to influence practice (Masten, 1993). In this article. we argue that prescriptions drawn from this theory are likely ...
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作者:Chiles, TH; McMackin, JF
摘要:Transaction cost economics (TCE) relies on three behavioral assumptions in predicting how firms choose governance structures-bounded rationality. opportunism. and risk neutrality. We explore the implications of the neglected behavioral assumption of risk neutrality. offer am integrative appraisal of the three behavioral assumptions using trust as or unifying perspective. and explicate subjective costs and risks. We illustrate the relative ease with which previous empirical shortcomings can be ...
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作者:Chen, MJ
摘要:This article bridges two important subjects in strategy: competitor analysis and interfirm rivalry. Through a refined conceptualization of competitor analysis, the article introduces two firm-specific, theory-based constructs: market commonality, developed from the literature on multiple-point competition, and resource similarity, derived from the resource-based theory of the firm. The joint consideration of these two constructs shows the complementarity of these two prominent but contrasting ...
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作者:Abrahamson, E
摘要:Management fashion setters disseminate management fashions, transitory collective beliefs that certain management techniques are at the forefront of management progress. These fashion setters-consulting firms, management gurus, business mass-media publications, and business schools-do not simply force fashions onto gullible managers. To sustain their images as fashion setters, they must lead in a race (a) to sense the emergent collective preferences of managers for new management techniques, (...
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作者:Reed, R; Lemak, DJ; Montgomery, JC
作者单位:United States Department of Energy (DOE); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
摘要:Authors of the literature on total quality management (TQM) have been much more concerned with process than content. This cuticle considers TQM in relation to firm orientation and identifies market advantage. product design efficiency. process efficiency. and product reliability as the key features of its content. performance expectations for TQM, in the form of increased revenues. reduced costs. and their time lags, me addressed in the context of environmental uncertainty.