Collaborating with a supplier in a buying firm’s new product development (NPD) project is commonly advocated and adopted, but does not always improve project performance. Some pre-existing collaboration contexts, such as buyer-supplier NPD projects, are especially exposed to supplier opportunism due to the uncertain nature of the collaboration process. Adopting agency theory and transaction cos...

Opportunism is a central construct in exchange theory. Economists contend that despite the firm’s best efforts to erect governance structures that reduce opportunism and preserve outcomes, there is always some opportunism that remains once the transaction is in place. Despite this, there are few studies that systematically investigate the safeguarding efficacy of relationship attributes in the ...

This article aims to define a value-based approach to pricing and reimbursement for off-patent originators using a multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach centered on a systematic analysis of current pricing and reimbursement policies in China. A drug price policy review was combined with a quantitative analysis of China's drug purchasing database. Policy preferences were identified...

By exploiting a unique and proprietary dataset comprising granular deal- tranche-level data on global portfolio of securitisation deals, we empirically test the buffer vs signalling hypothesis credit enhancements in securitisation. We do so by focusing one internal enhancement associated with design financial securities securitisation, i.e. subordination. This study provides novel evidence role...

Bounded rationality prevents humans from tracing all action plans that could, in principle, be imagined. In the present paper, individuals' partly socially-shaped cognitive frames explain which action plans do gain attention. This provides the basis for a new entrepreneurial theory of the firm where `business conceptions,' which underlie any entrepreneurial venture, play a key role. Coordinatio...

We begin an investigation of broadcasting from multiple originators, a variant of broadcasting in which any k vertices may be the originators of a message in a network of n vertices. The requirement is that the message be distributed to all n vertices in minimum time. A minimum k-originator broadcast graph is a graph on n vertices with the fewest edges such that any subset of k vertices can bro...

It is well-known that suggesting subject headings according to user queries is useful for subject searches (e.g., the MeSH database for MEDLINE (“MeSH databse,” n.d.), RedLightGreen (“RedLightGreen,” n.d.)). However, few systems suggest subject headings for OPACs in Japan. Some systems (e.g. “National Diet Library NDL-OPAC,” n.d.), which offer users a function that retrieves subject headings, a...