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Market-led reform strategies around the world have given rise to fears of a progressive commercialization of hospital care. The aim of this article is to suggest an analytical framework that might explain the ubiquitous market-led reform strategies and to scrutinize widespread claim that commercialization processes impacts negatively on quality and equality of access. In comparing an ideal type model of commercialized health care with institutional and organizational change the article provides an assessment of commercialization processes in German hospital care. Although there is a newly evolving market-led governance structure in German hospital care commercialization processes have, however, been restricted. While there are strong signs that on a regulatory level the German hospital ...
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...), political risk, poor corporate governance and tax burden considerations. The paramount issue...
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Due to the importance of external suppliers for most companies, procurement and governance management is of utmost relevance for achieving competitive advantage. Research in the field of industrial buying behaviour (IBB) has largely been influenced by transaction cost economics (TCE). However, some TCE research has been rather simplistic; not distinguishing between governance structures and mechanisms, while research in IBB has a surplus of descriptive empirical studies and a critical shortage of analytical and conceptual constructs. This paper aims to address these shortcomings by integrating IBB and TCE in a conceptual model regarding procurement and governance of transactions. The model regards the analytical choice of a suitable combination of governance mechanisms (price, trust and...
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... (RCM) that accounts for the nested structure of our data and leads to more reliable results. Af... e.g., proposed that the home country's governance moderates the I-P relationship for EM MNEs and sug...
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This paper examines the social relationships in and around a German subsidiary in Hungary during the first 15 years of Hungarian transition to a market economy. It draws on a recent conceptual framework that sees multinational corporations as transnational social spaces, in which transnational communities - communities of individuals that exhibit a unique cross-national organisational identity - may emerge. Empirically investigating two basic types of cross-border social relationship in multinational corporations, the paper argues that, due to the constant interplay of crossborder management and ownership relationships, the emergence of transnational communities is a demanding process, with established communities being precarious entities.
... to looking at how organisational structure is a function of corporate strategy and environmen... represent the different layers of governance to which the venture was and is subject. The paper...
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... by a fit between MNE coordination structures shaped by home country institutions and host count... systems (Streeck 1992), and corporate governance (Aguilera and Jackson 2003). In CIA, institutions ...
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... the state ownership ensures strong governance in corporations that result from such partnerships...(2) The ownership structure of the company: It is observed that the ownership ...
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... transfers: on the one hand, the network structure that typifies many MNCs has beneficial impacts on ...S. (1995). Technology strategy, governance structure and interdivisional coordination. Journa...
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... different integrative and coordinative structures on knowledge transfer success are contradictory. C...(1995). Technology strategy, governance structure and interdivisional coordination. Journa...
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... (particularly differences in corporate governance systems and ownership structure) affect how the ro...