Barringer and Harrison (2000) - Creating value from Inter-Organizational relationships Flashcards
1
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What are the six theories of IOR
A
- Transaction cost theory
- resource based view
- Strategic choice
- Stakeholder theory
- Organizational learning
- Institutional theory
2
Q
What are tighlty coupled forms of organizing?
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The participants are linked together by formal structures and may involve joint ownership
3
Q
What are loosely coupled forms of organizing?
A
Involve less structure and joint ownership
4
Q
What are the six different forms of IOR?
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- Joint venture
- Network
- Consortia
- Alliance
- Trade association
- Interlocking directorate
5
Q
What are advantages of IOR?
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- Gain access to particular source
- Economies of scale
- Risk and cost sharing
- Gain acces to a foreign market
- product or service development
- learning
- speed to market
- flexibility
- collective lobbying
- neutralizing or blocking competitors
6
Q
What are disadvantages of IOR?
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- Loss of proprietary information
- management complexities
- Failure risk is high
- risk becoming dependent on partner
- partial loss of decision autonomy
- culters may clash
- loss of flexibility
- antitrust implications