Article
Management
Keith Skowronski, W. C. Benton, Sean Handley
Summary: Globalization has made it more challenging to mitigate opportunism in buyer-supplier relationships, especially when managing relationships across different cultures. This study investigates the influence of a supplier's national culture on the effectiveness of inter-firm power in controlling opportunism. The findings reveal differences in the effects of inter-firm power on opportunism across suppliers in different cultures and suggest that coercive power may weaken the effectiveness of expert power in certain cultural contexts.
JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
David Gilliland
Summary: Marketing inter-firm control examines how one party manages the behaviors and outcomes of another. Despite existing theories, many questions about control remain unanswered. This paper applies a framework to study control and governance and presents research propositions and an agenda.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Business
Roberta Troisi, Gaetano Alfano
Summary: This study analyzes inter-firm corruption and the role of proximity in reducing transaction costs using transaction cost theory. The results show that technological and geographical proximity benefit both forms of exchange, reducing costs, while social proximity does not appear to benefit corrupt exchanges.
SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Chia-Ying Li, Yu-Hui Fang
Summary: This study examined transaction costs and their determinants in the sharing economy, using structural equation modeling to analyze data from 375 users of Airbnb. The findings suggest that personalization of asset specificity and transaction frequency decrease transaction costs, while learning of asset specificity and transaction uncertainty increase transaction costs, influencing behavioral intention. Perceived complementarity has a direct impact on transaction uncertainty, and the number of users moderates the relationship between transaction costs and behavioral intention. This understanding can guide managers in various industries impacted by the rapid growth of the sharing economy, providing them with strategies to address this trend.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Xiaohong Liang, Yong Wang, Kehu Tan
Summary: The cooperation model between railway company and express delivery company in China is still in its initial stage and the key factors influencing this model include specific asset investment requirements, organizational structure of the railway industry, and the number of business participants. Express delivery companies tend to prefer industrial alliances over contract models when specific assets investment is needed, and the transaction cost of the contract model is higher when the organizational structure of the railway industry is integrated.
ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Economics
Yingchen Yan, Qiuhong Zhao, Zhongfeng Qin, Benjamin Lev
Summary: This study examines the impact of inter-competitor outsourcing on firms' profits and conflicts in product launching time. The findings suggest that outsourcing changes firms' timing preferences and increases the likelihood of consensus on launching time. Additionally, the study reveals that outsourcing can improve firms' profitability, and delaying product launch can increase firms' benefits.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Business
Francesco Galati, Barbara Bigliardi, Roberta Galati, Giorgio Petroni
Summary: This paper examines the inter-organizational tensions in the development of the Metis project as part of the ESA Solar Orbiter mission, and how these tensions were addressed using various theoretical perspectives. The identified contingent and structural solutions may have implications for future CoPS projects.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Yingchao Lan, Deepa Goradia, Aravind Chandrasekaran
Summary: This study examines the impact of multisiting physicians on reducing ancillary costs in acute-care hospitals in the United States, as well as how hospitals participating in the ACO model affect this relationship. The research found that patients treated by multisiting physicians experienced significant average savings in laboratory and radiology charges, while hospitals in the ACO model complemented these savings by further reducing pharmacy costs.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Fangfang Liu, Yousong Wang, Hongyang Li, Xiaowei Zhou
Summary: The study investigates the relationship between transaction cost and cooperative period in municipal PPP projects. The results show that prolongation of the cooperative period can decrease transaction cost, with large-investment projects having higher transaction cost compared to less-investment ones.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Tahir Abbas Syed, Fahad Mehmood, Talia Qaiser
Summary: Brands are increasingly interested in influencer marketing campaigns to emphasize the exclusivity of their products. However, there is a lack of research on management strategies for influencer collaboration to overcome the associated challenges, resulting in wasted investment and low success rates. This study uses transaction cost economics theory to investigate how brands effectively manage collaboration with social media influencers (SMIs) through case studies of influencer marketing campaigns in 15 brands. The findings identify critical management strategies and develop a collaboration management framework for effective collaboration. This paper provides insights into influencer marketing from the brands' perspective and offers guidance for effective influencer collaboration.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Shoujin Wang, Longbing Cao, Liang Hu, Shlomo Berkovsky, Xiaoshui Huang, Lin Xiao, Wenpeng Lu
Summary: A transaction-based recommender system aims to predict the next item by modeling dependencies in transactional data. The proposed HATE model integrates item and transaction embeddings to capture both intra- and inter-transaction dependencies, outperforming existing methods in recommendation accuracy on real-world datasets.
IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Business
Raymond Obayi, Seyed Nasrollah Ebrahimi
Summary: This study explores the impact of external neo-institutional pressures on shaping risk management strategies in construction supply chains in China. The findings indicate that Confucianist networks serve as proxies for regulatory accountability, influencing risk management strategies in both state-led and private-led supply chains. The study highlights the importance of relational and behavioral costs in driving supply chain risk management practices, and emphasizes the need for a nuanced understanding of efficiency in global construction supply chains.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Business
Xander Stegehuis, Ariane von Raesfeld, Lambert Nieuwenhuis
Summary: This study investigates inter-organizational tensions in servitization and develops a dialectic process model to better understand the emergent nature of servitization. The study combines dialectic theory and the ARA framework to identify inter-organizational tensions as generative forces in servitization. A single case study about the implementation of a circular service proposition in the construction industry is presented to reveal multiple tensions in a servitization context and how they emerged as a result of contradictory relationship structures in the existing and envisioned situations. The study contributes to the literature by extending knowledge on servitization tensions, portraying servitization as a dialectic process, and opening the black box of inter-organizational tensions by adopting the ARA framework.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Luania Gomez Gutierrez, Denis Cormier, Michel Magnan
Summary: This paper examines the determinants of inter-organizational imitation of environmental disclosure and finds that country uncertainty, reference group similarity, and cultural diversity on imitating firm's board are significant factors influencing imitation. Results show that firms are more likely to imitate environmental disclosure of firms from other countries and industries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
K. S. Cheung, S. K. Wong, H. Wu, C. Y. Yiu
Summary: This study examines a hybrid approach to land subdivision, known as cross-lease in New Zealand, where land is co-owned and each co-owner holds their structure through a long lease. Findings show that self-governance in cross-lease is more costly than government regulation, leading to a price discount that increases with the number of co-owners.