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Innovation Seeking Strategy of IT Outsourcing on e-Europe
Full text linkIn this paper, we emphasize the opportunities concerning the implementation of an intelligence receptive organizational culture, that allows the fast and flexible response of companies’ strategies in the competitive e-business. Due to the promotion of an an intelligence receptive culture, e-Europe software companies start to see the Romanian IT firms as extremely attractive targets for outsourcing projects that suppose not only NOT the creation of specialized software, but also the overtaking of maintenance or suppoert services. The creation of a website designed to facilitate the outsourcing projects will assure the increase of the Romanian IT companies’ visibility in e-Europe.outsourcing, information technology, website, intelligence receptive culture, e-Europe
Introduction to Part II: Dynamics of globalization: Location-specific advantages or liabilities of foreignness?
No full textThe chapter look at dynamics of globalizatio
Advances in International Management, Vol 25
No full textThe book scrutinize how different perspectives of institutional theory are applied in International Business researc
Imitative offshoring strategies. Lessons learnt from the Italian small domestic appliance industry.
No full textOur chapter is organized in the following way: first, it briefly
describes the changes in the global economic scenario for the domestic appliances industry since the mid-1990s. Secondly, we analyze the determinants of internationalization of production and supply. In the third place, we examine which activities were mainly involved in “delocalization” and how offshoring to unaffiliated (contract) parties resulted in vertical disintegration for the entire industry and the growing inability of former manufacturers to appropriate the results of investments in such high-value activities as research, design, and development.
The chapter closes with a summary of key findings, implications
for managerial work, and suggestions for future research
The Performance of Group-affiliated Firmsduring Institutional Transition: A LongitudinalStudy of Indian Firms
No full textInstitutional and transaction cost theories highlight the idea that group-affiliated firms outperform
unaffiliated firms in emerging economies. However, the persistence of superior performance among group-affiliated
firms could be challenged by the recent, quick development of markets and institutions in these countries. This article
explores the link between firm performance and the evolution of the institutional environment.
Research Findings/Insights: We analyze how business group affiliation affected firm performance in India in the postreform
era, i.e., from 1990 to 2006. Our findings show that: (1) the performance benefits of group affiliation are evident in
the early phase of institutional transition, but level out in the late phase; (2) older group-affiliated firms are better able to
cope with institutional transition than younger group-affiliated firms; and (3) group-affiliated service firms are better able
to cope with institutional transition than group-affiliated manufacturing firms.
Theoretical/Academic Implications: Our findings support institutional and transaction cost theories, as they show that: (1)
when labor, capital, and products markets are characterized by large imperfections and weak supporting institutions
business groups outperform independent companies; (2) when markets become more efficient and institutions grow
stronger group-affiliated firms fail to show continued superior performance; and (3) heterogeneity among member firms
may influence the appropriation of the benefits arising from group affiliation. These findings expand the traditional
understanding of the relationship between firm performance and the institutional context in emerging economies, and
provide further support for the idea that the relative performance of group-affiliated firms is contingent upon the characteristics
of the institutional context and their particular features.
Practitioner/Policy Implications: The article has implications for managers and policy makers. Managers of business
groups should adapt the timing of strategies to the evolution of the institutional environment. Policy makers should focus
on the consequences of their policies, as they may undermine the efficiency of large national companies
The importance of internal and external knowledge sourcing and firm performance: A latent class estimation
No full textThis research examines the differential impact of the importance of internally and externally sourced information and knowledge and their relationship to absorptive capacity and firm performance. In addition, this analysis deals directly with the unobservable heterogeneity amongst firms that is generally viewed as the raison d'être for a unique resource-based perspective of organizational performance. Latent class, finite mixture regression models are used that show that a single model relating knowledge sourcing, absorptive capacity and firm performance is inadequate in explaining even a minor portion of the variation which is seen between firms. Copyright © 2011 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The MNC as a Knowledge Structure The Roles of Knowledge Sources and Organizational Instruments in MNC Knowledge Management
Full text linkRecent research on the differentiated MNC has concerned knowledge flows between MNC units. While linking up with this literature, we extend in two directions. First, we argue that conceptualizing the MNC as a knowledge structure furthers the understanding of intra-MNC knowledge flows. Thus, we see MNC knowledge elements as being structured along such dimensions as their type and degree of complementarity to other knowledge elements, and their sources, for example, whether they are mainly developed from external or internal knowledge sources. These dimensions matter in terms of knowledge flows, because they influence the costs and benefits of knowledge transfer and, hence, the actual level of knowledge transferred. Second, based on this conceptualization, we argue that MNC management can influence the development, characteristics and transfer of knowledge through choices regarding organizational instruments (control, motivation and context). We test six hypotheses derived from these arguments against a unique dataset on subsidiary knowledge development. The dataset includes information on organizational instruments, sources of subsidiary knowledge, and the extent of knowledge transfer to other MNC units. It covers more than 2,000 subsidiaries located in seven different European countries.Knowledge structure, complementarity, knowledge transfer, the MNC
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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