The Economics Of Interfirm Networks

Author : Tsutomu Watanabe,Iichiro Uesugi,Arito Ono
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784431553908

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The Economics of Interfirm Networks by Tsutomu Watanabe,Iichiro Uesugi,Arito Ono Pdf

This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1) macroeconomic activities, (2) economic geography and firm dynamics, and (3) firm–bank relationships. The database for this work is constructed in collaboration with Japan's largest credit research company, Teikoku Data Bank, and covers a substantial portion of Japanese firms with information on firms' transaction partners, shareholders, financial institutions, and other attributes, including their locations and performance. Networks prevail in many aspects of economic activities and play a major role in explaining a wide variety of economic phenomena from business cycles to knowledge spillovers, which has motivated economists to produce a number of excellent works. In the policy arena, there has been a growing concern on the vulnerabilities of networks based on the casual observation that idiosyncratic shocks on firms can be amplified through inter-firm connections and leads to a systemic crisis. Typical examples are the manufacturing supply-chain networks in the automobile and electronics industries which propagated regionally concentrated shocks (the Great East Japan Earthquake and floods in Thailand in 2011) into global ones. An abundance of theoretical literature on the formation and functions of networks is available already. This book breaks new ground, however, and provides an excellent opportunity for the reader to gain a more integrated understanding of the role of networks in the economy. The Economics of Interfirm Networks will be of special interest to economists and practitioners seeking empirical and quantitative knowledge on interfirm and firm–bank networks.

Author : Fabrizio Cafaggi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849809696

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Contractual Networks, Inter-firm Cooperation and Economic Growth by Fabrizio Cafaggi Pdf

This insightful book presents a legal and economic analysis of inter-firm cooperation through networks as an alternative to vertical integration. It examines comparatively various forms of collaboration, ranging from consortia to multiparty joint ventures and from franchising to dealerships. Collaboration among firms of different sizes helps to overcome numerousweaknesses of the modern western industrial systems. It permits the governing of vertical disintegration without increasing fragmentation and transaction costs and allows firms to benefit from resource complementarities, favoring division of labour. The contributing authors, primarily focusing on Europe and the US, address important ways in which legal systems provide a framework for inter-firm coordination. It is clear from the analysis that significant obstacles to collaboration still remain, and the authors call for legal reforms at European and Member States level.

Author : Anna Grandori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134629909

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Interfirm Networks by Anna Grandori Pdf

This book examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Drawing on a variety of case studies the contributors present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach.

Author : Theresia Theurl
Publisher : Mohr Siebrek Ek
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3161486013

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Economics of Interfirm Networks by Theresia Theurl Pdf

Firms produce an increasing part of their value added in networks. Therefore, managing the boundaries of the firm is essential to the success of such interfirm networks. It has become obvious that firms as well as networks need rules for good governance. Developing and enforcing these rules is one of the tasks of the network management, which is one of the prerequisites for successfully operating networks. In this volume, well-known economists and organization research scholars analyze the many facets of interfirm cooperation.

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319358502

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Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse Pdf

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse,Marijana Srećković
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030292454

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Design and Management of Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse,Marijana Srećković Pdf

Interfirm networks include franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy. This book gathers the latest research studies that approach these networks – and the creation of innovation under the conditions of a complex, dynamic, knowledge-intensive and digital economy – from an interdisciplinary perspective. The studies, all of which were written by respected experts, explore how firms can improve their competitiveness by securing access to innovation, knowledge, complementary resources and capabilities otherwise not available to them. In addition, they highlight how, driven by an unpredictable environment, firms embedded in inter-organizational networks are increasingly transforming from co-operators to collaborators and valuable co-creators of innovation.

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319101842

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Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse Pdf

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Author : Mark Casson,Marina Della Giusta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000124720875

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The Economics of Networks by Mark Casson,Marina Della Giusta Pdf

Networks have a widespread economic significance. They structure the way that market traders interact and configure relations within and between social groups, urban centres and nation states. This work on the economics of networks is suitable for researchers in microeconomics, spatial and business economics.

Author : Lucio Biggiero,Robert Magnuszewski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031173899

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Inter-firm Networks by Lucio Biggiero,Robert Magnuszewski Pdf

This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs. peripheral companies, and distribution by country and sector. Presenting an empirical case study on all the limited liability or stock companies of the aerospace industry in the European Union and its interlock partners worldwide, the authors shed new light on these forms of coordination. Moreover, they reveal the relevance of shared managers’ coordination and hybrid manager-director interlocks. The book applies advanced statistical and social network analysis alike by combining firms’ attributes (e.g. standard economic-financial parameters) and topological indices for firms (e.g. centrality and cluster measures). By conducting the analysis at both the aggregate network level and the cluster or corporate group level, the authors show how extensive and intensive the interlock forms of coordination are, especially when dealing with shared managers. By testing seven hypotheses concerning the research stream on board interlocks and (more broadly) inter-firm networks, the study offers new insights into the role of the financial sector, on the relations between interlock coordination and firms’ performance, on the role of geographical, technological and organizational proximity, and on the relations between interlock coordination and firms’ size. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of organization studies, business and management studies, industrial and evolutionary economics, and economic sociology, as well as officers and policymakers at anti-trust regulation institutions.

Author : Monden Yasuhiro
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813207790

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Economics Of Incentives For Inter-firm Innovation by Monden Yasuhiro Pdf

In the current environment of severe global competition, an uncertain business future as well as shorter product life cycles, companies have a pressing need to develop new products and businesses rapidly. In this book, Professor Yasuhiro Monden expounds on his theories about inter-firm networks and incentive price systems as important mechanisms to encourage innovation. The author has coined the term incentive price system to explain profit allocation systems which will motivate inter-firm collaboration to develop new customer-pleasing products or businesses. He notes that such a comprehensive concept of incentive price has not been studied in conventional economics but is invaluable for solving various profit allocation problems. The theories in the book are richly illustrated by many case studies from the automobile, auto-parts, smartphone, semiconductor, convenience store and nuclear power electricity industries. Examples from the automobile industry account for more than half of the case studies because the author has accumulated much practical knowledge and experience from research and related activities in the Japanese automobile industry over several decades. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners of lean or just-in-time production, as well as those involved in related areas such as managerial accounting, managerial economics, corporate finance, organization theory and cooperative game theory. Contents: Preface Introduction: Research Theme, Framework and Summaries of Each Chapter Critical Comments on the Traditional Organization and Price Theories Innovations for Social Problems: Business Innovation in General: Open Innovation Based on the Business Ecosystem Environmental Problem: Open Innovation of Eco-Cars Based on the Global Inter-Firm Collaboration Wage Difference Problem: Smile Curve and Fair Allocation of the Global Value-Added among Nations Inter-Firm Innovations Can Solve the Wage Differentials in the Supply Chain Open Inter-Firm Network: From Adam Smith's Division of Labor to the Network Organization How Can the Open Network Organization be Constructed via M&A? Design of "Open" Global Supply Chain Robust Supply-Chain for the Disasters Incentive System by the Inter-Firm Profit and Loss Allocation: How to Value the Intangible Assets for Allocating the Synergy Effect in the Global Inter-Firm Network How to Determine the "Acquisition Price" for Purchasing the Firm in M&A Risk Sharing and Risk Spreading Based on the "Full Cost-based Transfer Price" A Convenience-Store Chain: Cost Sharing and Profit Sharing that Motivate the Inter-Firm Cooperation Nuclear Power Electric Company: How Can All Stakeholders "Share the Burdens" of Solving Damage Liability and Business Turnaround? Theoretical Analysis of Incentive Price: Two Transfer Prices: The Market Price for Balancing Supply and Demand and the Incentive Price for Inter-Firm Collaborations Cooperative Game Theory and "Φ stability" for the Profit Allocation by the Cumulative Opportunity Cost Method Note on the Management Philosophy for Collaboration: Note on Management Philosophy for Inter-Firm Collaboration Readership: Researchers and practitioners who are interested in lean or just-in-time production systems and management. Keywords: Open Innovation;Open Network Organization;Incentive Price System;Inter-firm Collaboration;Supply Chain ManagmentReview:0

Author : Robert Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000160536

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The Business of Networks by Robert Huggins Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The first book which brings together and interprets both the theoretical concepts associated with the study of networks in the business world, and the policy applications being applied to the practical building and development of such networks. It maps the changes in the culture of economic development policy that occurred in the UK during the 1990s, incorporating a detailed assessment of the contribution that the Training and Enterprise Councils made to business support policies. The book is published at a time when network and cluster building has risen to the top of economic development agendas not only in UK, but in many countries throughout the world. It offers the most detailed insight so far available into the structure, motivations and processes involved in developing business networks through institutional intervention. The book is relevant to anyone with an interest in business policy and theory.

Author : Su, Z. (Zhan),Poulin, Diane, 1950 Aug. 14-,Université Laval. Faculté des sciences de l'administration. Direction de la recherche,Chrysostome, Élie Virgile,Université Laval. Centre de service, d'orientation et de recherche sur la compétitivité internationale et l'ingénierie de l'entreprise réseau
Publisher : Québec : Faculté des sciences de l'administration de l'Université Laval, Direction de la recherche
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2895240698

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Inter-firm Cooperation Networks : a Historical Perspective by Su, Z. (Zhan),Poulin, Diane, 1950 Aug. 14-,Université Laval. Faculté des sciences de l'administration. Direction de la recherche,Chrysostome, Élie Virgile,Université Laval. Centre de service, d'orientation et de recherche sur la compétitivité internationale et l'ingénierie de l'entreprise réseau Pdf

Author : Charlie Karlsson,B”rje Johansson,Roger Stough
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1781958505

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Industrial Clusters and Inter-firm Networks by Charlie Karlsson,B”rje Johansson,Roger Stough Pdf

'This well-edited volume should be on the shelf of every regional development agency library. Its seventeen chapters written by 31 predominantly academic contributors are divided into four coherent sections: the first on cluster and network modelling, the next on empirical analysis, a third on case studies, finishing with two chapters on policy analysis and strategies.' - Tony Jackson, Journal of Economic Development This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks. Given the prevailing political belief that clusters can be a major vehicle for economic development and growth, it is important to have a sound understanding of clusters and how they emerge, grow, eventually stagnate and disappear. It is also vital to know when and how to apply policy measures to support cluster development in order to increase economic welfare. This book illuminates both the theoretical and empirical issues relating to clusters and inter-firm networks, and presents a number of interesting case studies from a variety of different countries.

Author : Giacomo Becattini,Marco Bellandi,Lisa De Propris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781007808

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A Handbook of Industrial Districts by Giacomo Becattini,Marco Bellandi,Lisa De Propris Pdf

'A Handbook of Industrial Districts is a very well-organized and structured collection of scientific works on the theory of industrial districts.' - Roberta Capello, Regional Studies In this comprehensive original reference work, the editors have brought together an unrivalled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to comment on the historical and contemporary role of industrial districts.

Author : B. Nooteboom
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415329538

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Inter-firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks by B. Nooteboom Pdf

Developments in technology and globalisation have led to an upsurge in inter-organizational relations. This book surveys the current field, connects differing perspectives and answers questions about who should collaborate, why, and how.