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Resource dependence theory
About: Resource dependence theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2732 publications have been published within this topic receiving 184871 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether financial dependence upon a few customers is negatively related to the allocation of innovation resources of supplier firms and investigated whether these negative effects of supplier dependence on research and development (R&D) intensity are reduced when the supplier leverages social capital conceptualized in terms of eigenvector centrality and interconnectedness.
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TL;DR: The 1990 World Conference on Education for All as discussed by the authors was a seminal event in the standardization of Western models of mass education in international education conventions and declarations, as typified by the 1990 WEC.
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TL;DR: This paper developed a typology of intervention strategies for Business Links in England which reflect differences in the breadth and depth of the support provided, and tested the impacts of these alternative intervention models on client companies using both subjective assessments by firms and econometric treatment models that allow for selection bias.
Abstract: Most advanced economies offer publicly financed advice services to start-up firms and SMEs. In England, local or regional Business Links organisations have provided these services, and divided their support into nonintensive one-off contacts providing information or advice and more intensive support involving a diagnostic process and repeated interaction with firms. A key choice for Business Link managers is how to shape their intervention strategies, balancing resources between intensive and nonintensive support. Drawing on resource dependency theory, we develop a typology of intervention strategies for Business Links in England which reflects differences in the breadth and depth of the support provided. We then test the impacts of these alternative intervention models on client companies using both subjective assessments by firms and econometric treatment models that allow for selection bias. Our key empirical result is that Business Links’ choice of intervention strategy has a significant effect both on actual and on perceived business outcomes, with our results emphasising the value of depth over breadth. The implication is that where additional resources are available for business support these should be used to deepen the assistance provided rather than extend assistance to a wider group of firms.
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TL;DR: This article examined three perspectives that have been hypothesized by policymakers and academics to explain the creation of gang units: contingency theory, social threat theory, and resource dependency theory, using data obtained from police departments and communities around the country, the explanatory power of measures derived from these three theories is explored, while controlling for several environmental and organizational influences.
Abstract: Specialized police gang units are a rapidly emerging form of concentrated social control. Prior research, however, into the creation of specialized gang units suffers from a number of theoretical and methodological shortcomings. These shortcomings make it difficult to understand which of several potential explanations can best account for the establishment of specialized police gang units. Three perspectives are examined that have been hypothesized by policymakers and academics to explain the creation of gang units: contingency theory, social threat theory, and resource dependency theory. Using data obtained from police departments and communities around the country, the explanatory power of measures derived from these three theories is explored, while controlling for several environmental and organizational influences.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a resource dependence perspective to examine evidence and explain how pay forms may be influenced by groups of employees in critical positions that affect firm performance, and propose to predict specified forms of pay subject to various conditions.
Abstract: This paper applies a resource dependence perspective to examine evidence and explain how pay forms may be influenced by groups of employees in critical positions that affect firm performance. Contingency factors that impact the degree of dependence of management on groups of employees in critical positions are identified. Propositions are developed that predict specified forms of pay subject to various conditions. Implications for further research that utilizes a resource dependence perspective are discussed.
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