The Changing Boundaries of the Firm

Explaining Evolving Inter-firm Relations
Herausgeber: Colombo, Massimo G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dunning, Rutgers University, USA and University of Reading, UK; Christos Pitelis, Judge Institute of Management Studies, UK; Michel Delapierre, Universite de Paris X, Fran

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This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms. The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and inter firm cooperative activities in terms of knowledge growth and competence building rather than merely in terms of cost-reduction; they emphasize learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather than efficient allocation of given resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415154703
• ISBN-10: 0415154707
• Artikelnr.: 21786533

Autorenporträt

Massimo G. Colombo is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Università di Pavia. He is also Professor of Economics of Technical Change at the Politecnico di Milano. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of industrial economics, economics of innovation and the theory of the firm in established international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Some introductory reflections PART I Alliance capitalism? 2
Reappraising the eclectic paradigm in an age of alliance capitalism 3 On
knowledge and power in the theory of the firm 4 Blurring boundaries: new
inter-firm relationships and the emergence of networked, knowledge-based
oligopolies PART II Joint ventures, alliances, and hierarchical integration
5 The evolution of collaborative activity in the firm 6 Testing theories of
joint ventures: Why Japanese investors in the United States choose joint
ventures over acquisitions 7 A simultaneous equations model of
technological agreements and infra-mural R&D 8 Technological change and
vertical integration: Analysis of international vertical integration in
multinational companies PART III Supply relations 9 Cost, quality, and
learning based governance of buyer-supplier relations 10 Japanese
'transplant' supplier relations: are they transferable? Should they be? 11
Customer-subcontractor relationships