Organizational boundaries and economic performance: an empirical study of entrepreneurial computer firms

Article Abstract:

Entrepreneurial computer firms were researched using transaction cost economics in order to elucidate the organizational boundaries of entrepreneurial firms and their relation to economic performance. Organizational boundaries articulate those activities executed within a firm's hierarchy and those executed outside of the firm in the market or within other types of relationships. Transaction cost theory elucidates when firms prefer inter-hierarchical modes of organization or to contract out to the market. Data from a sample of 122 entrepreneurial computer firms was analyzed. Research results reveal that the performance of entrepreneurial computer firms is affected by contracting activities. The effects of contracting activities on performance are moderated by the product market strategies.

Analysis, Computer industry, Finance, Entrepreneurship

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The dynamics of the liability of foreignness: a global study of survival in financial services

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Regulatory restrictions on foreign companies add to the costs of doing business overseas that may create a liability of 'foreignness.' A study is conducted to examine how survival in interbank currency trading all over the world is affected by foreignness. An international population of currency trading rooms is investigated over the 20 year period 1974-1993. The study tests a series of hypotheses concerning the impact of foreignness and the compensating effects of variables relating to the firm and to the location on the continued viability of currency trading rooms as the industry's market makers. Findings indicate that foreignness does create a liability which changes over time, and that survival of the trading rooms is influenced by strategic and organizational factors.

International aspects, Foreign corporations, International business enterprises, Multinational corporations, International competition (Commerce), International competition (Economics), Trading rooms (Finance)

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Managerial prescriptions under the resource-based view of strategy: the example of motivational techniques

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The possible impact of managerial advice on the long-run rent streams of business organizations is examined from the perspective of the resource-based view of strategy. It is proposed that managerial prescriptions from consultants, academics and other sources may create rent for the long term since a common managerial decision may produce uncommon resources. This argument is based on the assumption that the implementation of managerial prescriptions and organizational performance have a partially stochastic relationship. Instead of focusing on the 'rules for riches,' the analysis considers that they may be general 'rules for chances of riches.' The argument is examined by assessing the impact of the use of motivational techniques on a firm's chances of achieving rents.

Business consultants, Management consultants, Strategic planning (Business), Economic rent

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