Profitability, transactional alignment, and organizational mortality in the U.S. trucking industry

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A study was conducted to determine how management should address both organizational and economic variables when devising their survival strategy in a newly deregulated industry. This research focuses on the mortality of firms in the trucking industry, the deregulation of which was set into motion in 1980 when regulatory reforms were introduced, leading to relaxed entry and price decisions. A multidisciplinary analysis carried out for this study integrated ecological and economic theories into a single model to improve their explanatory power, thus the focus on both firm-level and industry-level attributes. Empirical analysis showed that mortality rate rises when firms do not follow operating policies aligned with transaction cost minimization strategies. Efficiency-based and ecologically based selection mechanisms were found to act as complements, highlighting the role of both economic and ecological factors in a deregulated industry.

Trucking, General Freight Trucking, Trucking & Courier Services, Ex. Air, Industry Overview, Profits, Organizational effectiveness, Deregulation, Business failures, Corporate profits

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R&D, organization structure, and the development of corporate technological knowledge

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The link between a firm's organization of research, specifically its choice to operate a centralized or decentralized R&D structure and the type of innovation it produces is explored. It is proposed that by reducing the internal transaction costs associated with R&D coordination across units, centralized R&D will generate innovations that have a larger and broader impact on subsequent technological evolution than will decentralized research.

United States, Science & research, Organizational behavior, Organizational behaviour

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Don't go it alone: alliance network composition and startups' performance in Canadian biotechnology

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Issues discussed concern the potential benefits of strategic business alliances for startup companies, and how the management of alliance networks has impacted the early performance of startups in the Canadian biotechnology industry. Topics addressed include the minimization of risk, redundancy, and conflict in strategic alliances.

Canada, Organizational Methods NEC, Statistical Data Included, Methods, Management, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Joint ventures, Organizational change, Strategic planning (Business), New business enterprises, Startups, Strategic alliances (Business)

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