Loyola Marymount University

About: Loyola Marymount University is a education organization based out in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supreme court & Politics. The organization has 3375 authors who have published 5385 publications receiving 108766 citations. The organization is also known as: LMU.

Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships

Abstract: This article examines the developmental process of cooperative interorganizational relationships (IORs) that entail transaction-specific investments in deals that cannot be fully specified or controlled by the parties in advance of their execution. A process framework is introduced that focuses on formal, legal, and informal social-psychological processes by which organizational parties jointly negotiate, commit to. and execute their relationship in ways that achieve efficient and equitable outcomes and internal solutions to conflicts when they arise. The framework is elaborated with a set of propositions that explain how and why cooperative IORs emerge, evolve, and dissolve. The propositions have academic implications for enriching interorganizational relationships, transaction cost economics, agency theories, and practical implications for managing the relationship journey.

Structuring cooperative relationships between organizations

Abstract: Alliances and similar cooperative efforts are receiving increased attention in the strategic management literature. These relationships differ in significant ways from those governed by markets or hierarchies, and pose very different issues for researchers and managers. In this paper we address alternative forms of governance in cases where multiple organizations repeatedly cooperate. We explore their characteristics and follow this with a discussion of criteria which we believe bear on the choice of governance: risk and reliance on trust. We offer propositions on relationships between these criteria and the choice of governance mechanisms. In the concluding section of the paper we explore the implications of our analysis for managers and scholars.

Stories of the storytelling organization: a postmodern analysis of disney as "tamara-land"

Abstract: My purpose is to theorize Walt Disney enterprises as a storytelling organization in which an active-reactive interplay of premodern, modern, and postmodern discourses occurs. A postmodern analysis ...

Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge

Abstract: Part I. The Methodology of Epistemology: 1. Using moral theory in epistemology 2. Difficulties in contemporary epistemology 3. More reasons to try a virtue approach: the relations between believing and feeling 4. An objection to modeling evaluation in epistemology on ethics: the dispute over the voluntariness of belief 5. Conclusion to Part 1: why center epistemology on the virtues Part II. A Theory of Virtue and Vice: 1. Types of virtue theories 2. The nature of a virtue 3. Intellectual and moral virtue 4. The two components of intellectual virtue 5. The importance of phronesis 6. The definition of deontic concepts 7. Conclusion to Part 2: the scope of the moral Part III. The Nature of Knowledge: 1. Knowledge and the ethics of belief 2. Defining knowledge 3. Gettier problems 4. Reliabilism 5. Plantinga's theory of proper function 6. Harmonizing internal and external aspects of knowing 7. Conclusion to Part 3: ethics, epistemology, and psychology Bibliography Index.