Benefiting from modularity within and across firm boundaries

Cost management across firm boundaries

For most companies the costs of purchased goods and services have come to account for the main part of total costs. The primary driving force underlying this development is the increasing reliance on outsourcing, making efficient purchasing activities of crucial importance for the financial performance of companies. Therefore, Monczka and Morgan (2000) argue that there must be an ‘absolute link...

Running head: Navigation across Boundaries Piloting and Path Integration Within and Across Boundaries

Three experiments investigated whether navigation is less efficient across boundaries than within boundaries. In an immersive virtual environment, participants learned objects' locations in a large room or a small room. Participants then pointed to the objects’ original locations after physically walking a circuitous path without vision. For participants who learned the objects in the large roo...

Trust Within and Across Boundaries: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Insights Title: Making Sense of Trust Within and Across Boundaries Authors:

Recent calls have been placed for researchers to consider trust within wider theoretical conceptualizations, and in doing so, undertake a ‘reality check’ on existing theories and established methods of empirical inquiry. We respond to this by analysing trust as a social construction created within unique socially constructed contexts, such as boundaries. Actors assign meaning to boundaries whic...

Piloting and path integration within and across boundaries.

Three experiments investigated whether navigation is less efficient across boundaries than within boundaries. In an immersive virtual environment, participants learned objects' locations in a large room or a small room. Participants then pointed to the objects' original locations after physically walking a circuitous path without vision. For participants who learned the objects in the large roo...

Coping with the Unplanned: The Dynamics of Improvisation in Information Systems Evolution Within and Across Firm Boundaries By