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作者：Song, XM; Di Benedetto, CA; Zhao, YZL
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Although one might expect differences between manufacturing and service firms in pioneering advantages, the extent of these differences has nor yet been investigated This is the first cross-national study that compares such differences in nine countries/regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore. We develop several hypotheses concerning the perceptions of managers of manufacturing firms and service firms regarding the be...
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作者：Murray, JY; Kotabe, M
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Global procurement of services has been receiving an increasing amount of managerial attention in recent years. Service firms seem to have begun sourcing part of their service activities from abroad in much the same way as manufacturing firms have sourced components and finished goods in the past 30 years. However, little is known about the nature of service sourcing strategy. In this study, we employ a modified transaction-cost analysis to examine empirically the locational (domestic vs, glob...
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作者：Combs, JG; Ketchen, DJ Jr
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University System of Ohio; University of Dayton
摘要：Interfirm cooperation and its performance implications are examined in the context of two widely cited theoretical approaches to organizations. Broadly speaking, the resource-based view suggests that firms seek to capitalize on and increase their capabilities and endowments, whereas organizational economics asserts that firms focus on minimizing the costs of organizing. Although these perspectives agree on managers' likely actions in many areas, their predictions diverge when interfirm coopera...
