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Copenhagen Business School
Education•Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark•
About: Copenhagen Business School is a education organization based out in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Entrepreneurship. The organization has 2194 authors who have published 9649 publications receiving 341898 citations.
Topics: Corporate governance, Entrepreneurship, Corporate social responsibility, Context (language use), European union
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that accounting can be conceptualised as an actor helping to mediate, shape and construct interorganisational relations through self-regulating and orchestration mechanisms.
Abstract: Networks of formally independent firms are interesting because they claim to be able to build competencies, exploit complementary resources and redesign strategies faster than firms can change. By networking, firms are said to get access to resources in a flexible way and typically by interacting with other firms non-hierarchically, directly and based on trust. Accounting and management control would appear counter-intuitive to such an arrangement. However, based on empirical observations from three horizontal networks where firms rally around projects, it appears that controls create durability and predictability. Self-regulation and orchestration mechanisms establish the network as a network enterprise seeking to develop and exploit complementarities in the diversity of network competencies and resources in different ways. Structural and functional approaches such as transactions cost economics are weak in explaining the ways in which relations are constructed and governed. We propose that accounting can be conceptualised as an actor helping to mediate, shape and construct inter-organisational relations through self-regulating and orchestration mechanisms. Self-regulating mechanisms allow interaction and exchange to occur unobtrusively, while orchestration mechanisms involve structuring these interactions. Both mechanisms are organised around various kinds of accounting—such as transfer prices and intellectual capital statements—and around the construction of segmentation in the network that provide it with a topology of centres and peripheries. Trust, it appears, is not a property of such a situation. Trust is a problematising devise. It is raised as a concern in the networks when trusting is absent.
261 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and disadvantages of local and non-local search, discusses organizational responses, and identifies potential exogenous triggers for different kinds of search, concluding that the initial focus on local search was a consequence, in part, of the attention in evolutionary economics to path-dependent behavior, but that as localized behavior was increasingly accepted as the standard mode, studies began to question whether locally search was the best solution in all cases.
Abstract: This article critically reviews and synthesizes the contributions found in theoretical and empirical studies of firm-level innovation search processes. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of local and non-local search, discusses organizational responses, and identifies potential exogenous triggers for different kinds of search. It argues that the initial focus on local search was a consequence, in part, of the attention in evolutionary economics to path-dependent behavior, but that as localized behavior was increasingly accepted as the standard mode, studies began to question whether local search was the best solution in all cases. More recently, the literature has focused on the trade-offs being created, by firms having to balance local and non-local search. We account also for the apparent “variety paradox” in the stylized fact that organizations within the same industry tend to follow different search strategies, but end up with very similar technological profiles in fast-growing technologies. The article concludes by highlighting what we have learnt from the literature and suggesting some new avenues for research.
260 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors view clusters as a specific spatial configuration of the economy suitable for the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge, and investigate how the modern exchange-economy becomes orga...
Abstract: This paper views clusters as a specific spatial configuration of the economy suitable for the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge. It investigates how the modern exchange-economy becomes orga...
260 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a brief historical overview of research on digitization and digitalization in business-to-business markets, concluding that this discussion has a long tradition and thus is not a new phenomenon.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity, and find no evidence that LBOs decrease these activities.
Abstract: A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease these activities. Relying on standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents applied for by firms in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and are more concentrated in the most important and prominent areas of companies' innovative portfolios.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Cass R. Sunstein | 117 | 787 | 57639 |
John Campbell | 107 | 1150 | 56067 |
Nicolai J. Foss | 91 | 454 | 31803 |
Stewart Clegg | 70 | 517 | 23021 |
Robert J. Kauffman | 69 | 437 | 15762 |
James R. Markusen | 67 | 216 | 26362 |
Timo Teräsvirta | 62 | 224 | 20403 |
John D. Sterman | 62 | 171 | 27982 |
Björn Johansson | 62 | 637 | 16030 |
Richard L. Baskerville | 61 | 284 | 18796 |
Torben Pedersen | 61 | 241 | 14499 |
Peter Christoffersen | 59 | 208 | 15208 |
Saul Estrin | 58 | 359 | 16448 |
Ram Mudambi | 56 | 236 | 13562 |
Xin Li | 56 | 214 | 11450 |