Download or read book Three Essays on Vertical Organization and Firm Strategy written by Octavio Jose Martinez Arguello and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Essays on Strategy and Industrial Organization written by Ioannis Ioannou and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays in the fields of Strategy (Essay One) and Industrial Organization (Essays Two and Three). The first essay investigates the impact that different types of spinoff activity - the exit of incumbent firm employees to intra-industry entrepreneurship - have on the survival probability of the incumbent organization. I propose a theoretical model based on corporate coherence, organizational learning and agency theory, for understanding the spinoff impact. I test the model empirically on a dataset from the US automobile industry and I identify specific types of spinoffs that may be beneficial for the parent by enhancing its survival probability. My results set the foundations for a strategic management theory of spinoff activity. The second essay, coauthored with Julie Holland Mortimer, and Richard Mortimer, investigates empirically the impact that retailer capacity choices have on realized sales in the US video rental industry. We provide estimates of this impact under alternative vertical contracts, and we show that, on average, an additional unit of capacity has a positive impact on sales, with titles taken on the contracts with the highest up-front cost typically having the strongest impact on sales from increased capacity. The third essay, written jointly with Christos Cabolis, Sofronis Clerides and Daniel Senft, addresses the issue of international price discrimination in the book industry. We use data from three countries, the US, the UK and Canada, and we find that general audience books are similarly priced internationally, but textbooks are substantially more expensive in the United States; a disparity that is much more pronounced for commercial publishers than for university presses. We argue that higher US textbook prices reflect the unique status of the textbook as a centerpiece of US college instruction.

Download or read book Three Essays on Interactions Between Vertically Related Firms written by Rajeev K. Tyagi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Essays on the Locus of Learning and Innovation written by Carolyn Jiaming Fu and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three essays that explore the locus of learning and innovation in organizations and their environments, and the resulting impact on firm strategy. The first essay examines how firms can learn from a diverse set of sources. The returns to social learning are expected to be low in contexts rife with interdependencies, where practices from one context may be incompatible with those from another. Using a computational simulation, this essay shows that centralized social learning proves surprisingly robust to this challenge, and that to resolve it, firms should counterintuitively double down on social learning. The second essay examines how firms can leverage the market for systemic innovation. This is a task typically understood to be best accomplished through vertical integration, where the firm can easily explore alternative resource combinations. However, using a qualitative archival analysis of an opera company and a computational simulation, this paper shows that specialized producers' reputational concerns lead them to undertake systemic innovation, the value of which a firm can in fact undercut by trying to vertically integrate. The third essay examines how firms should take audience learning into account during experimentation. While firm learning calls for its experiments to be conducted as separately as possible from their core activities, audience learning (especially in cultural markets) often necessitates their integration in order to properly value an innovation. This essay uses a qualitative archival analysis of a ballet company to elucidate the challenge this creates for experimentation, and how firms can address this by strategically choosing their audience, and periodically replacing their experimentation units.

Download or read book Three Essays on Successive Vertical Oligopolies written by Joon Lim and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Collection Of Essays On Complexity And Management A Proceedings Of The Summer School On Managerial Complexity written by Walter Baets and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tendency exists in management theory and practice today to accept that our linear and deterministic ways of thinking about managerial problems create more problems than they solve. In the field of strategy studies, for instance, one can observe a growing interest in learning and organisational flexibility — IT gives importance to distributed cognition and adaptive systems. Management theorists are keenly observing developments surrounding complexity and chaos theory in science, and management researchers are attempting to apply emerging theories to managerial problems.Although there are still a limited number of applications in the managerial world, the Santa Fe Institute and the Los Alamos Center for Nonlinear Studies (both in the US) have been active for several years in closely related fields and, more important, adopt a multidisciplinary approach. Such applied research is seldom present in academic management journals. It seems, however, that the business community is interested in the implications of chaos and complexity for management as well as adopting a multidisciplinary approach to strategy and organisational change.This volume, constituting the proceedings of the Summer School on Managerial Complexity, held in Granada, Spain, on 11-25 July 1998, will benefit students and researchers in chaos and dynamical systems.

Download or read book Three Essays on B2B E market Firms written by Qizhi Dai and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resources Firms and Strategies written by Nicolai J. Foss and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and return to core business. Moreover, competitive advantage is now increasingly seen as a matter of efficiently deploying scarce knowledge resources toproduct markets. Much of this change in emphasis has occurred because of the emergence of a unified and rigorous approach to strategy, often called the resource-based approach. This Reader brings together extracts from the seminal articles that created this dominant perspective in strategicmanagement. It includes the pioneering work of Selznick, Penrose, and Chandler and more recent writing by Wernerfelt, Barney, Teece, and Prahalad and Hamel.

Download or read book The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management written by Ershi Qi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution, CMES, which is the only national-level academic society for Industrial Engineering. The conference is held annually as the major event in this arena. Being the largest and the most authoritative international academic conference held in China, it provides an academic platform for experts and entrepreneurs in the areas of international industrial engineering and management to exchange their research findings. Many experts in various fields from China and around the world gather together at the conference to review, exchange, summarize and promote their achievements in the fields of industrial engineering and engineering management. For example, some experts pay special attention to the current state of the application of related techniques in China as well as their future prospects, such as green product design, quality control and management, supply chain and logistics management to address the need for, amongst other things low-carbon, energy-saving and emission-reduction. They also offer opinions on the outlook for the development of related techniques. The proceedings offers impressive methods and concrete applications for experts from colleges and universities, research institutions and enterprises who are engaged in theoretical research into industrial engineering and engineering management and its applications. As all the papers are of great value from both an academic and a practical point of view, they also provide research data for international scholars who are investigating Chinese style enterprises and engineering management.

Download or read book The Theory of the Firm written by Daniel F. Spulber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of the Firm presents an innovative general analysis of the economics of the firm.

Download or read book Firms Contracts and Financial Structure written by Oliver Hart and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework for thinking about economic instiutions such as firms. The basic idea is that institutions arise in situations where people write incomplete contracts and where the allocation of power or control is therefore important. Power and control are not standard concepts in economic theory. The book begins by pointing out that traditional approaches cannot explain on the one hand why all transactions do not take place in one huge firm and on the other hand why firms matter at all. An incomplete contracting or property rights approach is then developed. It is argued that this approach can throw light on the boundaries of firms and on the meaning of asset ownership. In the remainder of the book, incomplete contacting ideas are applied to understand firms' financial decisions, in particular, the nature of debt and equity (why equity has votes and creditors have foreclosure rights); the capital structure decisions of public companies; optimal bankruptcy procedure; and the allocation of voting rights across a company's shares. The book is written in a fairly non-technical style and includes many examples. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic and business economists, and lawyers as well as those with an interest in corporate finance, privatization and regulation, and transitional issues in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China. Little background knowledge is required, since the concepts are developed as the book progresses and the existing literature is fully reviewed.

Download or read book Three Essays on South Korean Multinational Corporations written by Joonhyung Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of globalization, multinational corporations are the center in international economics. Most studies are based on investment flows between developed countries, however. With a firm-level dataset on South Korean multinational corporations, this dissertation adds new insights to the research of multinational corporations from the perspective of an emerging country. The first essay investigates the impact of the level of development of the destination country on employment growth of the multinational corporations in the home country. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we assess the impact of starting to invest in less-advanced countries compared with investing in more-advanced countries. To obtain suitable control groups in each case, we use the propensity score method. The method selects national firms that ex post did not take the investment decisions even though ex ante they would have been equally likely to. We find that moving to less-advanced countries decreases a company's employment growth rate especially in the short run. On the other hand, moving to more-advanced countries does not consistently affect employment growth in any significant way. Including investment decisions of established multinationals in the estimation somewhat weakens but does not overturn this conclusion. The second essay studies the location decision of South Korean multinationals across China's regions with a firm-level dataset. Our conditional logit estimates confirm previous studies that found agglomeration effects along industry and along national lines. In particular, South Korean investors target the region where there are more firms in an industry irrespective of their nationality. At the same time, more affliates from South Korean multinationals also attract new entrants. More importantly, however, we add an upstream and downstream (backward and forward) linkage effect. We find that the presence of upstream and downstream South Korean affiliates significantly increases the likelihood that a South Korean multinational invests in a particular region. At the same time, however, backward and forward linkages at the industry level that do not differentiate by nationality do not seem to matter much. As such, our analysis of investors' location choice brings together two perspectives: (backward and forward) linkages and agglomeration along national lines. The third essay explores regional production networks and off-shoring of material and service inputs in East Asia using the Asian International Input-Output Table (1990, 1995, and 2000). In process of doing so, off-shoring is directly measured from the Table which is not used in the previous literature on this issue. It turns out that East Asian countries source the significant share of inputs within East Asia. Besides material off-shoring, services off-shoring becomes more and more common in the era of globalization. In particular, countries in this region have used goods and services inputs mainly from Japan and the United States. However, in recent years, China and Korea started to supply greater amounts of goods and services inputs