Defining the nature of the relationship between contractual and relational governance is critical for understanding how to maintain commitment and coordination between private …
This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in Organizational Behavior. Expanding on his previous work in the field, John Miner …
Although foundational organization theory recognized the role of both formal and informal elements, for the past two decades scholarship appears to have primarily attended to the …
T Diefenbach, JAA Sillince - Organization studies, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper addresses the paradox that despite all organizational change towards flatter and postmodern organizations, hierarchical order is quite persistent. We develop a differentiated …
We explore the link between a firm's organization of research—specifically, its choice to operate a centralized or decentralized R&D structure—and the type of innovation it …
Agricultural cooperatives have changed considerably in recent decades. In witnessing these structural changes, scholars have proffered analyses of nontraditional ownership models …
A Keller, F Lumineau, T Mellewigt… - Organization …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Existing academic literature has discussed contracts and relational governance as the key mechanisms that help alliance partners address problems of cooperation and coordination …
NJ Foss, L Weber - Academy of Management Review, 2016 - journals.aom.org
We augment transaction cost economics' bounded rationality assumption with heuristics (framing) and cognitive biases to expand the understanding of hierarchical governance in …
We introduce a model of interorganizational governance within regional clusters. Drawing on the “new institutional economics” literature, we show how firms' governance designs are …