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The five partners model: France Telecom, Alcatel, and the global telecommunications industry
Joseph R. D’cruz,Alan M. Rugman +1 more
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In this paper, the D'Cruz/Rugman Five Partners Model is used to compare the competitive strategies of France Telecom and Alcatel in the global telecommunications industry, and the organizational structures of these companies embody fundamentally different approaches to achieving international competitiveness.About:
This article is published in European Management Journal.The article was published on 1994-03-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Telecom infrastructure sharing & Global strategy.read more
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The role of e-marketplaces in supply chain management
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which e-business tools of the e-marketplace are used by channel members in the retail sector for business-to-business supply chain management (SCM) is investigated.
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The theory of the flagship firm
Alan M. Rugman,Joseph R. D’cruz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a "flagship firm" as a multinational enterprise which has taken on the strategic leadership of a business network consisting of four other partners: key suppliers, key customers, selected competitors and the non-business infrastructure.
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Web‐based technology in support of construction supply chain networks
TL;DR: The paper presents an overview of problems associated with the process of managing construction project information and explores the key role Web‐based technology systems can play in making this process more effective.
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Online procurement: implementation and managerial implications
Binshan Lin,Chang‐tseh Hsieh +1 more
TL;DR: Lin and Chang-tseh Hsieh as discussed by the authors, respectively, have proposed a method to improve the performance of a teacher by training a teacher with a teacher's evaluation system and a teacher evaluation system.
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Business network theory and the Canadian telecommunications industry
Joseph R. D’cruz,Alan M. Rugman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the five partners model of the "business network" and argue that the cooperative, inter-industry and inter-firm relationships of the business network can ameliorate some of the costs found in markets and hierarchies.
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Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance
TL;DR: Porter's concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities", or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage as discussed by the authors, has become an essential part of international business thinking, taking strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities.
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The Core Competence of the Corporation
C. K. Prahalad,Gary Hamel +1 more
TL;DR: The most powerful way to prevail in global competition is still invisible to many companies as discussed by the authors, which is why the concept of the corporation itself has not yet been recognized as a powerful competitive advantage.
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
TL;DR: Porter's concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities", or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage as mentioned in this paper, has become an essential part of international business thinking, taking strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities.
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Competition for competence and interpartner learning within international strategic alliances
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed analysis of nine international alliances yielded a fine-grained understanding of the determinants of interpartner learning, concluding that not all partners are equally adept at learning, that asymmetries in learning alter the relative bargaining power of partners, stability and longevity may be inappropriate metrics of partnership success, and partners may have competitive, as well as collaborative aims, vis-a-vis each other.
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The future of the multinational enterprise
Peter J. Buckley,Mark Casson +1 more
TL;DR: A long-run theory of the multinational enterprise alternative theories of the Multinational Enterprise has been proposed in this article, and the World's Largest Firms Predictions and Policy Implications Index has been developed.