Threat of Entry and Organizational-Form Choice: The Case of Franchising in Retailing

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 810-830
Author(s):  
Mitsukuni Nishida ◽  
Nathan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Numerical Analyses ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Incumbent Firm ◽  
Threat Of Entry ◽  
Empirical Analyses

Retail expansion is led by multistore firms, which often mix two organizational forms: franchised and company-owned outlets (“franchising decisions”). The authors examine whether strategic considerations in entry and expansion play a role in organizational-form decisions (e.g., franchising) in retailing. The authors utilize store count and revenues for franchised and company-owned outlets of nationwide convenience store chains in 47 geographical markets in Japan between 1984 and 2010. The empirical analyses show that strategic considerations in entry and expansion, ignored in the literature on franchising, appear to influence an organizational-form decision: firms rely more on company-owned outlets for expansion when the threat of entry from competitor firms in adjacent markets increases. The authors examine two interpretations: the convenience of quick deployment and a credible signal. Numerical analyses of a simple dynamic model of entry and franchising confirm that company-owned-outlet-based expansion arises under heightened entry threat. The simulation analysis highlights how franchising decisions in response to an elevated threat of entry may be beneficial (or harmful) for an incumbent firm, which yields key implications for firms, consumers, and policy makers.

scholarly journals Formas organizativas modernas en empresas grandes del sector cooperativo colombiano/ Modern organizational forms in large companies of the Colombian cooperative sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-161
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Prevailing Paradigm ◽  
The One

Resumen Las organizaciones en general, y las cooperativas en particular, han sido objeto de cambios progresivos producto del sistema globalizado y de mercados diferenciados, que las han obligado a adoptar nuevos modelos organizacionales fundamentados en las premisas de añadir flexibilidad y valor para ser más competitivas, productivas e innovadoras. En ese contexto, el objetivo del artículo es determinar las formas organizativas modernas que presentan empresas grandes del sector cooperativo multiactivo colombiano, considerando sus estructuras, conductas y procedimientos. El enfoque fue cuantitativo, con un alcance descriptivo, transversal. Se utilizó la técnica de encuesta aplicada a 126 empleados en una población de 28 cooperativas seleccionadas intencionalmente. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría de los encuestados considera que las cooperativas multiactivas analizadas presentan formas estructurales, comportamentales y procedimentales modernas, basadas en la existencia de estructuras flexibles y el comportamiento dinámico de su personal. Se concluye que las empresas grandes del sector cooperativo estudiadas no aplican un solo tipo de formas organizativas, sino que toman la que mejor se adapten a las necesidades propias del sector, para convertirse en referentes de organizaciones que hacen posible la aplicación del nuevo paradigma imperante en la sociedad. Abstract Organizations in general, and particularly cooperatives, have been subject to progressive changes as a result of the globalized system and different markets, which have forced them to adopt new organizational models based on the premises of adding flexibility and value to be more competitive, productive, and innovative. In this context, the objective of the article is to determine the modern organizational forms that large companies of the Colombian multi-asset cooperative sector have, considering their structures, behaviors and procedures. The approach was quantitative, with a descriptive, transversal scope. The technique used in this article is a survey applied to 126 employees in a population of 28 intentionally selected cooperatives. The results show that the majority of respondents consider that the multi-asset cooperatives analyzed show modern structural, behavioral and procedural forms, based on the existence of flexible structures and the dynamic behavior of their staff. It is concluded that the large companies in the cooperative sector studied do not apply a single type of organizational form, but take the one that best suits the sector's own needs, to become benchmarks for organizations that make possible the application of the new prevailing paradigm in the society.

L'istituzionalizzazione di nuove forme organizzative - dalle organizzazioni alle reti d'azione

2012 ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Francesco Miele
Keyword(s):  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
London School ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Main Current ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
London School Of Economics

In the last years, organizational studies have developed a growing interest about institutionalization processes of new organizational forms, in order to understand the ways trough which innovative organizations, inter-organizational networks or organizing processes become stable and legitimized. The aim of this paper is to underline the potentialities of the action-nets approach (Czarniawska, 2004) in the study of institutionalization processes of innovative organizing forms. Firstly, the article focuses on the concept of action-nets, reporting two studies (Odds, 2005; Czarniawska, 2009) which have reconstructed the institutionalization processes of the same organizational form: The London School of Economics. Secondly, it underlines the innovations brought by action-nets approach in front of new institutionalism, the main current of studies that has contributed to understand the institutionalization's dynamics of new organizational forms. Finally, it concerns the development perspectives of action-nets, suggesting some useful directions to refine the theoretical and conceptual tools of this approach.

Categorisation of Telecom Circles in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51
Author(s):  
Debashis Saha
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Exact Procedure ◽  
Pertinent Question ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Diffusion

Ever since mobile has revolutionized the telecom scenario in India, experts often ask a pertinent question: is the old assignment of twenty-two telecom circles into four categories valid even now? It has become important in the light of variable rates of revenue sharing in different circles as per the policy of the Government of India (GoI). The extant literature is silent on the exact procedure followed by the GoI in classifying the circles, apart from mentioning the rationale of decreasing attractiveness. So we revisit the categorization process afresh from two perspectives: gross domestic product (GDP) and diffusion of mobile telephony. The GDP based clustering of the circles is quite straightforward. However, for the mobile diffusion based method, we take help of a dynamic model based on revenue potential. Interestingly, both the methods generate results, which are almost similar to the existing classification done by the GoI way back in 1999. Thus, our exercise provides a big relief to the policy-makers, thereby pre-empting the demands for immediate relook at the categorization.

scholarly journals Organizational Determinants of Bank Resilience: Explaining the Performance of SME Banks in the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Share Ownership ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Organizational Determinants ◽  
Cooperative Association ◽  
Hybrid Forms

By the start of the twentieth century, the two organizational forms most used by Dutch banks to raise capital through the dispersal of their ownership were the cooperative association and the public company. Share ownership in cooperatives was typically restricted to customers, while companies permitted outside investors. Neither organizational form dictated specific shareholder liability arrangements. New specialist banks targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) combined these two organizational forms and flexible liability rules to create hybrid forms. I find those that took the public company form were more likely to suffer distress during the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s. Liability arrangements for shareholders, by contrast, had a negligible impact on these banks’ resilience.

Dynamics Simulation Analysis of Centrifuge Facility-Vibration Shaker System Virtual Mocking Based on Flexible Centrifuge Arm

2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 266-270
Author(s):  
Yue Gang Wang ◽  
Zhao Yang Zuo ◽  
Jian Guo Wu ◽  
Hai Bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Ansys Software ◽  
Dynamical Simulation ◽  
Coupling System ◽  
Adams Software ◽  
Multi Body ◽  
Vibration Shaker ◽  
Body Dynamic

In order to study the dynamic characteristics of centrifuge facility-vibration shaker system, In the establishment of centrifuge facility-vibration shaker system multi-body dynamic model based on virtual mocking technology, the virtual dynamic model of the entire centrifuge facility-vibration shaker system more close to reality is built up by the transmission of finite element of flexible centrifuge arm. This paper describes how to build the 3-D virtual prototype of centrifuge facility-vibration shaker system by using Pro/e and ADAMS software, and how to create the modal neutral file of the centrifuge arm by using ANSYS software. Considering the system as a rigid-flexible coupling system, the dynamical simulation is carried out, and the results are benefit for the further research of its kinetic behavior, dynamic and variable characteristics basis and the design of such system.

Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce F. Riegelhaupt ◽  
Shepard Forman
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Forms Of Life

It is indeed a pleasure to be invited to address economists and economic historians regarding the dynamics of peasant economic integration into a national economic system. The particular subject of these meetings, “The Organizational Forms of Economic Life and their Evolution,” is an appropriate one for us since, as anthropologists, we are generally interested in the “Evolution of the Organizational Forms of Life.” Today we will examine the organizational form of peasant economic life in Brazil in an effort to develop a fuller understanding of the socio-economic transactions which take place within this traditional—better, transitional—agrarian society.

Simulation and Experimental Study on Sugarcane Field Excitation to the Cutter

2010 ◽  
Vol 156-157 ◽  
pp. 1105-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Lai ◽  
Shang Ping Li ◽  
Fang Lan Ma ◽  
Zhi Wen Qin ◽  
Jing Hui Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Physical Experiment ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Sugarcane Field ◽  
Field System ◽  
Measure Analysis ◽  
Field Excitation

The Sugarcane field excitation has notable influence on the sugarcane cutting quality, but its mechanism has seldom been studied. Based on the dynamic model analysis, this paper measure, analysis and test how the field excitation impacts the vibration of the cutter. After building up 3D model of the vehicle and field system, virtual simulation analysis on it is carried out, deducing that the frequency of field unevenness has notable influence on the vibration of the cutter. In physical experiment, it compares and analyzes the vibration of the cutter and cutting quality under different frequencies of field unevenness. The result shows that, the frequency of field unevenness has magnificent influence on the vibration of the cutter, and the higher the frequency the more deteriorated the sugarcane cutting quality.

Dynamic Simulation Analysis of Transmission Line Tension Stringing

2014 ◽  
Vol 680 ◽  
pp. 387-390
Author(s):  
Wei Kong ◽  
Yu Bao Zhang ◽  
Wei Lin Peng
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Line ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Dynamic Simulation ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Line Tension ◽  
Power Transmission Line

In this paper, the use of overhead ground wires as tension line of bearing cable .Using ANSYS and ADAMAS software ,To establish the dynamic model of power transmission line tension stringing,Considering the force of tension stringing process overhead bearing cable of ground wire. The study of tension stringing of transmission line show that the overhead ground wire as bearing cable of ground wire can meet the requirements of the tension line.

scholarly journals Small-Firm Networks: hybrid arrangement or organizational form?

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (69) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Renato Verschoore ◽  
Alsones Balestrin ◽  
Alexandre Perucia
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Small Firm ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Relevant Question ◽  
Firm Networks ◽  
The One

In the field of organizations, one relevant question is whether or not to consider networks as organizational forms. On the one hand, Williamson (1985) says that networks are hybrid arrangements. On the other, authors like Powell (1990) argue that networks constitute themselves as organizational forms. Given this dilemma, the present article proposes the analysis of organizational characteristics of small-firm networks (SFN). To reach such objective, twelve SFNs in distinct stages of development were analyzed. The results show that SFNs constitute themselves as singular organization forms which boundaries and identities are delineated by strategy, structure, coordination, processes and relationships.

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