Competition, cooperation, and innovation
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New hybrid organizational arrangements with competitive and cooperative features are required to foster technological innovation. Under conditions of rapid technological progress, strategic alliances or clusters of interfirm linkages will play a key role in innovative activities. As traditional mechanisms of price system, firm size and hierarchy become unable to handle complex coordination in the highy competitive business world, strategic alliances would become imperative. However, government policies on interfirm and intrafirm issues must be revised to accommodate these new organizational forms.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 1992
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Firm organization, industrial structure, and technological innovation
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Various models of organizational structure with respect to technological innovation are presented to demonstrate the link between the formal and informal structures of firms as well as their network of external linkages, and the rate and direction of innovation. The archetypes that were identified are the individual inventor and the stand-alone laboratory, multiproduct integrated hierarchy, high-flex Silicon Valley type, virtual corporation, conglomerate and alliance enterprise. Findings suggest that firm organization is an important determinant of innovation.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 1996
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Why reputation favors joint ventures over vertical and horizontal integration: a simple model
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The impact of reputation on a company's selection of market, hierarchy and organizational form is examined. A model is analyzed in which two companies noncontractually agree to contribute to an economic undertaking. It is shown that there is greater similarity in the optimal allocation of ownership between the two organizations in a repeated version of the model than in the one-shot paradigm. The results indicate that the joint venture type of alliance may be more appropriate than outright integration when reputation is a prime consideration.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 1995
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