Reconceptualizing plural sourcing

How much to make and How much to buy? An Analysis of Optimal Plural Sourcing Strategies

While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice firms often make and buy the same inputthey engage in plural sourcing. We argue that explaining the mix of external procurement and internal sourcing for the same input requires a consideration of complementarities across and constraints within modes of procurement. We create analytical foundations for ...

How Do Plural-Sourcing Firms Make and Buy? The Impact of Supplier Portfolio Design

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Reconceptualizing schizophrenia.

The recent emphasis for research on psychiatric disorders focuses on supposed underlying processes and their biological elements. Although such a direction may be fruitful, it would be a mistake to ignore more integrated approaches for understanding the mysteries of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. The complexity of the biopsychosocial paradigm should not lead to ignoring its poten...

Reconceptualizing Procedural Knowledge

Reconceptualizing second-person interaction

Over the last couple of decades, most neuroscientific research on social cognition has been dominated by a third-person paradigm in which participating subjects are not actively engaging with other agents but merely observe them. Recently this paradigm has been challenged by researchers who promote a second-person approach to social cognition, and emphasize the importance of dynamic, real-time ...