Market ¿ Hierarchy ¿ Networking: Cooperation in Times of Globalization, Fragmentation, and Uncertainty

Gero Hocker

ISBN 10: 3631575262 / ISBN 13: 9783631575260

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2008, 2008

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Neuware -Due to globalization and increased competition, many international firms have been adopting outsourcing strategies in order to cut costs by decreasing their degree of vertical integration. However, this strategy causes new problems. For instance, fragmentation of the company's value chain causes uncertainty with respect to the quality and availability of resources and the reliability of transaction partners. Further, the number of potential transaction partners has increased with the abolishment of trade barriers, which not only increases uncertainty, but also the complexity of the processes. International firms are managing these problems with different organizational structures and contractual arrangements with their transaction partners, while others have been evolutionary emerging. 246 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Market ¿ Hierarchy ¿ Networking: Cooperation in Times of Globalization, Fragmentation, and Uncertainty
• Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2008
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3631575262
• ISBN 13: 9783631575260
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 210 L x 148 A x 14 P (millimetri) 210 millimetri di larghezza per 148 millimetri di altezza per 14 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 324 grammi

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Due to globalization and increased competition, many international firms have been adopting outsourcing strategies in order to cut costs by decreasing their degree of vertical integration. However, this strategy causes new problems. For instance, fragmentation of the company’s value chain causes uncertainty with respect to the quality and availability of resources and the reliability of transaction partners. Further, the number of potential transaction partners has increased with the abolishment of trade barriers, which not only increases uncertainty, but also the complexity of the processes. International firms are managing these problems with different organizational structures and contractual arrangements with their transaction partners, while others have been evolutionary emerging.