WHEN COLLABORATION TRUMPS RIVALRY: EXAMINING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
| Autor: | Anne Parmigiani, Samuel S. Holloway |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Academy of Management Proceedings. 2011:1-6 |
| ISSN: | 2151-6561 0065-0668 |
| DOI: | 10.5465/ambpp.2011.65869233 |
| Popis: | Vertical groups are inter-firm structures that populate industries such as film production, architecture, and construction. Vertical groups consist of stable sets of suppliers and buyers that interact regularly in a persistent pattern of exchange relations. Such collaborations shift boundary decisions from a rivalrous choice by a single firm acting alone to a collaborative decision by the entire group. This raises the level of analysis to the group level, and questions the validity of prior, rivalrous theories of the firm. To examine this, we applied traditional theories of the firm to a collaborative setting. Using archival data on bridge construction project networks, we examine how project characteristics affect vertical group structure. Specifically, we predict and find that more diverse projects led to less embedded vertical groups, with a greater number of partners and few prior relationships, whereas more uncertain projects led to highly embedded vertical groups with fewer, better known partners. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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