Organizing Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9780415147071 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 138 str.

Anna DuBois

Opis

The way in which industrial activites are organized among firms has been a fundamental theoretical concern for a long time. In practice, firms have found these matters, referred to as make-or-buy issues, difficult to analyze. This book investigates how industrial activity can be organized efficiently when the work is divided between different firms. It provides an overview of the theoretical background to these issues before developing an original analysis based framework. The classical problem of vertical integration is dealt with as a matter of how to analyze and obtain efficiency in activity structures involving several participants. These issues are examined in a major case study with four embedded cases addressing various aspects of the activity structures. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the interdependence, boundaries and dynamics of activity structures. The make-or-buy issue is central to both economics and business administration with applications for production, purchasing and marketing issues.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 An activity based framework 3 The SweFork case 4 Interdependence in activity structures 5 Boundaries in activity structures vi Contents 6 The dynamics of activity structures

O autorze

Anna Dubois