Revising Concepts for Interfirm Collaboration - a Case-based Approach

Revising Concepts for Interfirm Collaboration - a Case-based Approach
Author: Nils Klingemann
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2007-08-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3638697711
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Diploma Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1.3 (A), European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel (Information Systems), language: English, abstract: The pressure on today's companies to outperform their competitors has been amplified by ever-growing customer demands. Diversification of products and operations in various markets entail heightened levels of uncertainty and risk in the wake of a pronounced economic downturn. Technical advances and strategic reconsiderations in the Business-to-Business (B2B) market have led companies to meet such challenges with new forms of collaboration. Especially considering its drawbacks, the success of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has confirmed the demand for interfirm connectivity. Combined, current forms of collaboration are limited both in scale and scope, as few companies have had the vision and drive to prepare themselves for what is ahead of proprietary one-to-one exchanges. Since 1999, industrial organizations have separately attempted to enable common interfirm trade with the help of online trading platforms and e-marketplaces. In most industries, the use of these platforms has been reduced to low numbers of intra-industry transactions between first-movers and strategic visionaries. Despite their damped optimism, companies' readiness has progressed along with the market potential. Tackling the initial weaknesses, an integrative B2B trading network that is based on true interoperability and openness is now well-positioned to exploit this increased potential. Still, collaboration in its current forms may not be sufficient: considering the present dominance of customer demands, an increasing number of individual solutions must be mass-tailored to order. At first sight, this leaves companies with no choice but to at least neglect, if not give up the goals of synergies, economies of scale as well as critical

Inter-firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks

Inter-firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks
Author: B. Nooteboom
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415329531
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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.

Revising concepts for interfirm collaboration

Revising concepts for interfirm collaboration
Author: Nils Klingemann
Publisher: diplom.de
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2003-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 383246803X
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Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Technical advances and strategic reconsiderations in the Business-to-Business (B2B) market have led companies to meet new challenges with innovative forms of collaboration. Since 1999, industrial organizations have separately attempted to enable common interfirm trade with the help of online trading platforms and e-marketplaces. In most industries, the use of these platforms has been reduced to low numbers of intra-industry transactions between first-movers and strategic visionaries. Despite their damped optimism, companies' readiness has progressed along with the market potential. Tackling the initial weaknesses, an integrative B2B trading network that is based on true interoperability and openness is now well-positioned to exploit this increased potential. At the example of Eastman Chemical Corporation, this paper analyzes the possibilities of creating a completely revised interfirm collaboration network. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Index of figuresIII Index of tablesIV List of abbreviationsV 1.Introduction1 1.1Statement of purpose1 1.2Research focus and goal2 1.3Outline2 2.The case of Eastman Chemical Company3 2.1Company background3 2.2Overview of corporate e-business portfolio3 2.3Backbone of current IT infrastructure4 2.4Strategic focus in the chemical industry6 3.Comparison and extension of collaboration forms7 3.1Organizational responses to current challenges7 3.2B2B collaboration models8 3.2.1Traditional view of collaboration8 3.2.2Selected non-equity interfirm relations9 3.2.3Selected equity interfirm relations9 3.2.4Strategic outsourcing of non-core activities10 3.2.5From portals and catalogues to e-marketplaces11 3.3Review of collaboration models14 4.Creating a framework for dynamic collaboration17 4.1Current challenges and unsolved problems17 4.2Meta-market framework requirements18 4.2.1Ensuring security and privacy18 4.2.2Adapting and standardizing online laws19 4.2.3Enhancing trust20 4.2.4XML-enabled web semantics21 4.2.5Extending on UDDI as global directory services23 4.2.6Extending on Web Services for standardized communication24 4.3Feasibility appreciation of a new collaboration model25 5.Introducing the dynamic collaboration network model27 5.1Operational deployment and integration of a MetaHub27 5.1.1Connectivity and implementation processes27 5.1.2Initiation and funding29 5.1.3Structuring transactions and negotiations30 5.2Extending towards a dynamic [...]

Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation

Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation
Author: Pablo Marcello Baquero
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509929983
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With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, the companies that will succeed in the future are those who operate under a constant state of innovation. Not just that, they will often need to ensure that they pursue 'open innovation'. This book explores the contractual basis for innovation, examining the legal challenges raised by contracts to innovate. Offering a dual perspective, it takes an empirical approach to examine how agreements are structured to overcome the inherent uncertainty implicit in innovative activity. It also presents a legal framework for contracts to innovate, based on the duty of loyalty to the contractual network, which could provide guidance to navigate the uncertainty of these relationships.

Ideas that Matter

Ideas that Matter
Author: Debra Satz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019090495X
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The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. They center around three central ideas: democracy, confronting injustice, and formulating political principles and values in an interdependent world.

Controlling Collaboration between Firms

Controlling Collaboration between Firms
Author: Angelo Ditillo
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0080941508
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Shows how accounting information and control mechanisms are used in decision-making, planning and control at an inter-organizational level and how accounting tools and techniques may support the development and management of external relationships with strategic partners. In "global companies" the use of management control mechanisms has increasingly become decentralised from the management accounting department, this book covers these issues. In all functional areas (marketing, operations, human resources, etc.), those who are expected to be able to analyse and interpret accounting information collected from external partners, have to exercise cost control to ensure that profit targets are achieved and understand.• to understand the nature of collaborative partnerships and illustrate the variables that explain the choice of different control modes in the various contexts of cooperation;• to describe the characteristics of management accounting mechanisms for cross-boundary settings, such as collaborative programmes and budgets, inter-firm performance measurement systems and inter-organisational cost management techniques;• to describe empirical evidence on control choices, management accounting practices and on management accountants' roles in collaborative relationships;• to present a framework of control patterns and specific Accounting Information Network (AIN) configurations that provide some novel theoretical insights on inter-organisational accounting and control and some guidance to practitioners operating in inter-firm collaborative settings.

ECKM2015-16th European Conference on Knowledge Management

ECKM2015-16th European Conference on Knowledge Management
Author: Maurizzio Massaro and Andrea Garlatti
Publisher: Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Total Pages: 1070
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1910810460
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These proceedings represent the work of researchers presenting at the 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2015). We are delighted to be hosting ECKM at the University of Udine, Italy on the 3-4 September 2015. The conference will be opened with a keynote from Dr Madelyn Blair from Pelerei Inc., USA on the topic “The Role of KM in Building Resilience”. On the afternoon of the first day Dr Daniela Santarelli, from Lundbeck, Italy will deliver a second keynote speech. The second day will be opened by Dr John Dumay from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. ECKM is an established platform for academics concerned with current research and for those from the wider community involved in Knowledge Management to present their findings and ideas to peers from the KM and associated fields. ECKM is also a valuable opportunity for face to face interaction with colleagues from similar areas of interests. The conference has a well-established history of helping attendees advance their understanding of how people, organisations, regions and even countries generate and exploit knowledge to achieve a competitive advantage, and drive their innovations forward. The range of issues and mix of approaches followed will ensure an interesting two days. 260 abstracts were initially received for this conference. However, the academic rigor of ECKM means that, after the double blind peer review process there are 102 academic papers, 15 PhD research papers, 1 Masters research papers and 7 Work in Progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers reflect the continuing interest and diversity in the field of Knowledge Management, and they represent truly global research from many different countries, including Algeria, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sultanate of Oman, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The Netherlands, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA and Venezuela.

Contractual Networks, Inter-firm Cooperation and Economic Growth

Contractual Networks, Inter-firm Cooperation and Economic Growth
Author: Fabrizio Cafaggi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849809690
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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.

Economics Of Incentives For Inter-firm Innovation

Economics Of Incentives For Inter-firm Innovation
Author: Yasuhiro Monden
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9813207795
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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.