Coopetition in a merger process: Regulators and management of coopetitive tensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110346
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Thelisson
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Merger Process ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

Coopetitive tensions can arise as strategic decisions are imposed on firms that challenge them to pursue competition and collaboration with other organizations. Regulators—such as the state—can interfere in merger strategies. Using a longitudinal case study, the objective of the study is: (1) to analyze which regulators influence coopetitive tensions in a merger process (including negotiation and integration stages); and (2) to explore how coopetitive tensions are coped with during the process. We found that the state and customers have architectural roles as regulators during the process (negotiation period, deal, and integration process). We explore coopetition paradox management at different levels (interorganizational, organizational, and individual levels) over the merger process. Points for practitioners Our study sheds light on tensions experienced by managers with conflicting identities at the beginning of the integration and on the way they coped with such tensions. Indeed, our study shed lights on the integration principle as managers were able to transcend the paradox in their decisions and actions implemented at the organizational level through reorganizing the organization and favoring tandem teams and joint piloting.

Interactions between institutional logics and cultural dynamics in the public–private integration process

2020 ◽  
pp. 002085231989123
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Thelisson ◽  
Olivier Meier
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State

This article underlines the specificities of public–private mergers by presenting the interactions between the institutional logics at stake and the cultural dynamics during the integration process of a public–private merger. The article presents a longitudinal case study of a public–private merger of two listed French companies over two years. Our study completes and enriches Schultz’s model by showing its dynamic nature and highlighting the crucial role of the state as a trigger for the interactions between institutional logics and cultural dynamics. Points for practitioners By highlighting the interactions between cultural dynamics and institutional logics, we trace how cultural dynamics influence the decision-making process and how institutional logics influence integration by becoming dominant. We demonstrate how the state influences the interactions between these forces during the integration process.

scholarly journals The Power of Political Cartoons: A Case Study of Zunar’s ‘Twit Twit Cincin’

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-180
Author(s):  
Roslina Abdul Latif ◽  
◽  
Sojoud Elgarrai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
The Political ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Way

The following study of selected works of art by Zulkiflee Anwar Haque or better known as Zunar, a Malaysian political cartoonist from his book ‘Twit Twit Cincin’. This study is guided by the visual rhetoric theory that has three areas of study - nature, function and evaluation. The study looks at selected cartoons that addressed political figures, politics and social issues. The research looked at the way the caricatures portrayed Malaysian politicians, his perspectives on the political and social issues and how these issues were addressed. The researcher also looked at metaphors used by the cartoonist to communicate his ideas to the audiences. The study found that Zunar’s portrait of Malaysian politicians is not always positive. He is critical but not in an inflammatory way. The metaphors found in Zunar’s work are found to be common themes and simple to understand. They are also very well-known, visually appealing and a tool to tie his messages together and to get his ideas across. Zunar has managed to resist the oppression of the state through his cartoons while looking at institutional reform, puts forth an alternative articulation of history and nation that juxtapose the current government. Keywords: Zunar, political cartoonist, political and social issues, Twit Twit Cincin, metaphors.

scholarly journals Externally-imposed Institutional Barriers on Transnational Entrepreneurs: Lessons for the Iranian-Canadian Case

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pouyan Tabasinejad
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Financial System ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurship ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurs ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
The Way

Scholars of transnational entrepreneurship have largely focused on the issue of institutional barriers within the country of origin (COO) context, asserting that transnational entrepreneurs (TEs) can overcome these barriers in a way that constitutes a competitive advantage. What has not been analyzed in the literature is the way in which institutional barriers that are imposed from outside of TE networks can affect TE behaviour and success. In this study, I will introduce the concept of externally imposed institutional barriers, using the example of Iranian TEs as a case study in which to understand this concept. By looking at three cases of Iranian TEs functioning within the context of Iran’s exclusion from the global financial system, this study will draw conclusions on the state of Iranian-Canadian TE activity and its implications for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

scholarly journals Virtual exchange: Romania and Hungary 100 years later

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Andra Cioltan-Drăghiciu ◽  
Daniela Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

The aim of this Virtual Exchange (VE) project was to bring together students from the Andrássy Gyula German speaking university (AUB) in Budapest, Hungary, and Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (LBUS), Romania, in order for them to get to know their neighbors and reflect on the way the end of WWI is remembered 100 years later. In this case study, we discuss the way we conceived the three iterations of the VE (2018-2020), the challenges we faced on different levels, as well as the value of this teaching method for the academic field of history.

Cloud Monitoring

2012 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Peer Hasselmeyer ◽  
Gregory Katsaros ◽  
Bastian Koller ◽  
Philipp Wieder
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
State Health ◽  
Cloud Monitoring ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

The management of the entire service landscape comprising a Cloud environment is a complex and challenging venture. There, one task of utmost importance, is the generation and processing of information about the state, health, and performance of the various services and IT components, something which is generally referred to as monitoring. Such information is the foundation for proper assessment and management of the whole Cloud. This chapter pursues two objectives: first, to provide an overview of monitoring in Cloud environments and, second, to propose a solution for interoperable and vendor-independent Cloud monitoring. Along the way, the authors motivate the necessity of monitoring at the different levels of Cloud infrastructures, introduce selected state-of-the-art, and extract requirements for Cloud monitoring. Based on these requirements, the following sections depict a Cloud monitoring solution and describe current developments towards interoperable, open, and extensible Cloud monitoring frameworks.

scholarly journals Waste generation prediction under uncertainty in smart cities through deep neuroevolution

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Camero ◽  
Jamal Toutouh ◽  
Javier Ferrer ◽  
Enrique Alba
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Uncertain Data ◽  
Recurrent Network ◽  
The State ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
The Way

The unsustainable development of countries has created a problem due to the unstoppable waste generation. Moreover, waste collection is carried out following a pre-defined route that does not take into account the actual level of the containers collected. Therefore, optimizing the way the waste is collected presents an interesting opportunity. In this study, we tackle the problem of predicting the waste generation ratio in real-world conditions, i.e., under uncertainty. Particularly, we use a deep neuroevolutionary technique to automatically design a recurrent network that captures the filling level of all waste containers in a city at once, and we study the suitability of our proposal when faced to noisy and faulty data. We validate our proposal using a real-world case study, consisting of more than two hundred waste containers located in a city in Spain, and we compare our results to the state-of-the-art. The results show that our approach exceeds all its competitors and that its accuracy in a real-world scenario, i.e., under uncertain data, is good enough for optimizing the waste collection planning.

scholarly journals Mobile people, phones and photography: Somali visual practices in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Neil Carrier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Somali Diaspora ◽  
Mobile Phone Camera ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe coming of the mobile phone camera has transformed photography. This article explores this transformation through a case study of photography in Eastleigh, a Nairobi estate that is home to many thousand Somalis, both Kenyan Somalis and refugees from Somalia. It is a trade hub for East Africa, a social and economic hub for the global Somali diaspora, and a place regarded as suspect in a country where Somalis have long been marginalized. This article examines Eastleigh as photographic subject and setting, comparing the ubiquity of mobile phone photography there with seldom-practised more traditional forms of photography that are often treated with suspicion in an estate subject to securitized government policy and negative press. It shows how mobile phone photography helps people in the estate communicate visually with the wider Somali diaspora through social media, and how it helps people sell their goods, using as a case study a particular archive of images sent through WhatsApp to the author by Mohaa, a friend of his and a trader in the estate. The article also adds a political dimension to recent anthropological theorizing on mobile photography, showing how, in Eastleigh, Somalis have used photography and social media to take control of the way in which the estate is represented visually, and to demand from the state better services and better treatment.

scholarly journals A Struggle over Recognition and Nonrecognition: The Internationalization of the Abkhaz State University

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Bruno Coppieters
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
State University ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The Way

Abstract The Abkhaz State University (ASU) is internationally isolated, despite its cooperation with universities in Russia. Georgia combines its refusal to recognize Abkhaz statehood with a policy of nonrecognition of its university, which sets the direction for other countries. But the Abkhaz policies of nonrecognition are also to be taken into account. Abkhazia opposes any form of internationalization of the ASU generating closer ties with Georgia. The article examines how the Georgian and Abkhaz policies of nonrecognition hamper the internationalization of the ASU within the European educational space. It explores a conflict on recognition and nonrecognition of status and identity, where status does not refer exclusively to statehood. In the field of higher education, European integration involves a large number of state and nonstate actors in 49 countries and a wide variety of forms of recognition and nonrecognition, ranging from the certification of individual qualifications and the publication of lists of unrecognized universities, to the setting up of joint educational programs. This integration process is largely state driven but based on the principle of the institutional autonomy of universities. Using the ASU as a case study, the way that policies on nonrecognition affect status in the field of higher education is examined.

scholarly journals Valdovo raštininko Jono Bogdanaičio Sapiegos (†1546) galios telkimas XVI a. pradžioje

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019/1 ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ryčkov
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Social Ranking ◽  
Supreme Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article raises the question about the way the officials of the Grand Duke’s Office accumulated power and used it to ascend the social and political ladder at the beginning of the 16th century. This question is answered based on the case study of the career of Jonas Bogdanaitis Sapiega (Иван Богданович Сапега), the Scribe of the Supreme Council of the Grand Duke. The analysis of the correspondence revealed that this position not only granted J. B. Sapiega the opportunity to be in the closest environment of the Grand Duke but also to influence his decisions related to the matters of the state or private affairs of the Lithuanian nobility. This enabled J. B. Sapiega to develop close and friendly (horizontal) relations with Lithuanian noblemen of the highest social ranking as well as to benefit from their protection and patronage.

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