Bart Nooteboom

Inter-Firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks (eBook, ePUB)

An Integrated Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inter-firm relations are not new. But fast developments in technology and globalization have led to increased opportunities for international alliances, and an upsurge in the interest in inter-organizational relations. With the time ripe for a unified theory of collaboration, "Inter-firm Collaborations surveys the current field, connects differing perspectives and answers questions about who should collaborate, why, and how.
Emphasizing learning and innovation, this book offers an integrated account of the key issues in the design and management of inter-firm relations and networks. It takes a uniquely interdisciplinary approach, bringing together perspectives from economics, sociology and management to offer a new kind of book on this subject.
Supporting theory, the book includes illustrative case examples taken from a variety of firm, network and industry types.
Coherent and wide-reaching, "Inter-firm Collaborations provides students and academics in economics, business, sociology, social psychology and economic geography with the tools required to understand this topical and highly relevant subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134330508
• Artikelnr.: 38245560

Autorenporträt

Bart Nooteboom is Professor of Organization in the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1 Aims and scope 1.1.1 Questions 1.1.2 Scope 1.1.3
Disciplines 1.2 Concepts and theory 1.2.1 Competence 1.2.2 Knowledge 1.2.3
Decision heuristics 1.2.4 Organization 1.2.5 Institutions 1.2.6
Complementary cognition 1.2.7 Tacit knowledge, absorptive capacity and firm
size 1.2.8 Knowledge transfer to small firms 1.2.9 Governance 1.3 Advanced
1.3.1 Cognitive distance 1.3.2 Empirical tests 1.3.5 Evolutionary
psychology 1.3.6 Institutions and evolution 1.3.7 Methodological
interactionism 1.3.8 Incommensurability 2. Goals 2.1 Goals 2.1.1 Efficiency
2.1.2 Competence 2.1.3 Positioning 2.1.4 Performance 2.2 Concepts and
theory 2.2.1 Economies of scale and scope 2.2.2 Economies of time 2.2.3
Innovation 2.2.4 Learning, exploration and exploitation 2.2.5 Communities
of practice 2.2.6 Internationalization 2.3 Advanced 2.3.1 Threshold costs
2.3.2 Cycle of discovery 2.3.3 Leaning by internationalization 3. Structure
3.1 Forms 3.1.1 Structure 3.1.2 Ties 3.1.3 Concentration of ownership and
control 3.1.4 Cobwebs 3.2 Choice 3.2.1 MA or alliance? 3.2.2 Bad reasons
3.2.3 Joint ventures 3.2.4 Network structure 3.2.5 Licensing 3.2.6
Structures of buyer-supplier relations 3.2.7 External corporate venturing
3.3 Concepts and theory 3.3.1 Third parties 3.3.2 The revelation problem
3.4 Advanced 3.4.1 Location 4. Governance 4.1 Risk analysis 4.1.1
Governance 4.1.2 Relational risk 4.1.3 An audit of hold-up risk 4.1.4
Network effects 4.2 Instruments 4.2.1 Risk control 4.2.2 Strategic
orientations 4.2.3 Instruments 4.2.4 Contingencies 4.3 Concepts and theory
4.3.1 Trust 4.3.2 Go-betweens 4.3.3 Hostages 4.4 Advanced 4.4.1 Detailed
risk audit 4.4.1.1 Value 4.4.1.2 Switching costs 4.4.1.3 Room for
opportunism 4.4.1.4 Intent towards opportunism 4.4.1.5 Overall system 4.4.2
Detailed choice 4.4.2.1 Conditions 4.4.2.2 Problems of governance 4.4.2.3
Examples 4.4.3 Empirical tests 5. Process 5.1 Stages of relations 5.1.1.
Beginning 5.1.2. Management 5.1.3. Adaptation 5.1.4. The end 5.2 Networks
for exploration and exploitation 5.2.1 Networks for exploration: the
competence side 5.2.2 Networks for exploration: the governance side 5.2.3
Networks for exploitation 5.2.4 Contingencies 5.2.5 Conclusion 5.2.6
Empirical evidence 5.2.6.1 Multimedia 5.2.6.2 Biotechnology 5.2.7
Development of clusters 5.2.8 Development of MNC's 5.2.9 Keiretsu5.3
Advanced 5.3.1 Opening game 5.3.2 Closing game 5.3.3 Generic forms of
outsourcing 6. Summary and Conclusions 6.1 Integrated theory 6.2 Dyads and
networks 6.3 Goals of collaboration 6.4 Forms of collaboration 6.5
Governance 6.6 Process 6.7 Further research