Organisational theory of the firm and the international structure and strategy of service firms

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-91
Author(s):  
Joanne Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Organisational Theory ◽  
International Structure

Outsourcing of Services by Service Firms

2011 ◽  
pp. 200-223
Author(s):  
Masaaki Kotabe ◽  
Janet Y. Murray ◽  
Maneesh Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Product Manufacturing

The traditional “make-or-buy” decision has been widely studied in the context of the theory of the firm and vertical integration. One of the most popular frameworks for examining this strategic decision has been the transaction cost analysis (TCA) framework. However, much of past research has focused on the make-or-buy decisions of product manufacturing activities, to the neglect of services. The make-or-buy decisions of services and service activities, due to their inherent characteristics (i.e., intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity, and perishability) and the unique nature of their “production” and “delivery,” necessitate modifying and revamping the existing framework. The authors develop and empirically test a conceptual framework that examines factors influencing a firm’s decision to use outsourcing or in-house sourcing for a service (service activity).

scholarly journals Insights From Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics on Best Practice In Professional Service Firms: On Perpetual Myth Creation?

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kosmala
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Professional Service Firms ◽  
Working Process ◽  
Organisational Theory ◽  
Production Processes

Drawing on the work of Ricoeur, this paper contributes to theorisation of the organisational field in understanding of how structural power operates through professional langue in shaping a construction of individual judgement in professional service firms. As Ricoeur argued that judicial sense may be envisaged as one of the best examples of hermeneutic application (1991: 493), I explore practitioners’ sense making and their interaction with the surrounding structures and its discourse, learned and assimilated during the formative years in the context of audit practice. The interviews-based story provides an illustration of (1) the processes of socialisation that are geared towards conceptions of what constitutes professional best practice, where the professional learns to use judgement and follow structure in particular ways (a perpetuated myth of best practice), and (2) the effects of such formation on the working process. The paper contributes insights into organisational theory in areas of negotiating a balance between institutional requirements (structural conditioning of professional epistemology) and technical demands of hermeneutic function (purposive expert activities) in decision making process. The paper concludes that practitioners assume the appearance of professionalism by adopting a particular professional langue where judgement becomes normative in its own terms. These re-production processes in accordance with organisational frames of references for action may be in opposition to the decisional autonomy, where there may be a space for simultaneously creating (agency) and sharing (structure) on the job. The study reveals that professional langue itself is a place of prejudice and bias on the job.

Vertical Restrictions: Development of Theory, Antitrust Legislation and Enforcement

2010 ◽  
pp. 110-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Avdasheva ◽  
N. Dzagurova
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Vertical Restraints ◽  
New Institutional Theory ◽  
Antitrust Laws ◽  
Antitrust Legislation ◽  
Market Organization

The article examines the interpretation of vertical restraints in Chicago, post-Chicago and New Institutional Economics approaches, as well as the reflection of these approaches in the application of antitrust laws. The main difference between neoclassical and new institutional analysis of vertical restraints is that the former compares the results of their use with market organization outcomes, and assesses mainly horizontal effects, while the latter focuses on the analysis of vertical effects, comparing the results of vertical restraints application with hierarchical organization. Accordingly, the evaluation of vertical restraints impact on competition differs radically. The approach of the New Institutional Theory of the firm seems fruitful for Russian markets.

The Economic Theory of the Firm: A Generalization

2012 ◽  
pp. 41-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Storchevoy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Boundaries Of The Firm ◽  
Opportunistic Behaviour ◽  
New Variant

The paper deals with development of a general theory of the firm. It discusses the demand for such a theory, reviews existing approaches to its generalization, and offers a new variant of general theory of the firm based on the contract theory. The theory is based on minimization of opportunistic behaviour determined by the material structure of production (a classification of ten structural factors is offered). This framework is applied to the analysis of three boundaries problems (boundaries of the job, boundaries of the unit, boundaries of the firm) and five integration dilemmas (vertical, horizontal, functional, related, and conglomerate).

Theory of the firm, Supply Chain management, and relationship marketing

2014 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
M. Storchevoy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Chain Management

The paper studies through the lens of the economic theory of the firm the development of two managerial disciplines: supply chain management and relationship marketing. The author demonstrates which ideas have been borrowed by these disciplines from the economic theory of the firm, and in what extent their implications may be useful for the latter.

Immigration and the tech industry: As a labour shortage remedy, for innovation, or for cost savings?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Matloff
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
It Service ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The U.S

The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workers--remedying labour shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"--are investigated, using data on wages, patents, and R&D work, as well as previous research and industry statements. The analysis shows that the claims of shortage and outstanding talent are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, it is shown that the primary goals of employers in hiring  foreign workers are to reduce labour costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is causing an ‘Internal Brain Drain’ in STEM.

Seasonal dynamics of climatic indices as one of the manifestation factors of pyrogenic phenomena on the territory of Lugansk region

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
I. A. Tarakhkalo
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Dynamics ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Climatic Indices ◽  
Specific Influence

The analysis on the effects of pyrogenic Lugansk region for the period from 2001 to 2005 was conducted using the service «FIRMS». Established seasonal dynamics of pyrogenic phenomena and specific influence of climatic factors on the pyrogenic effects in the Luhansk region.

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