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Managing Collaborative Effort: How Simmelian Ties Advance Public Sector Networks

The American Review of Public Administration, 2017
The research reported here is a structural analysis of the significance of ties to network leaders in securing the essential effort necessary to whole, goal-directed network functioning. Drawing on the work of Chester Barnard, we focus on one of Barnard’s three functions of the executive, securing essential effort and then examine the importance of ...
Robin H. Lemaire, Keith G. Provan
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Amakudari: The Ties that Bind the Bureaucracy with the Private and Public Sectors and Politics

2008
Western media in the 1980s used the term ‘Japan Inc.’ to describe the intimate relationship between the bureaucracy, politicians and big business, which was assumed to be the core component of Japan’s success in global markets. When the asset inflated bubble burst in 1990 and the attempts by government to reignite a recessive economy through the ...
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Topologies of innovation networks in knowledge-intensive sectors: Sectoral differences in the access to knowledge and complementary assets through formal and informal ties

Technovation, 2012
Abstract This paper contributes to a better understanding of the sources of networking variety in knowledge-intensive sectors, focusing on molecular biotechnology and software for telecommunications. These sectors differ in the nature of the knowledge exploited and in the organisation of the innovation processes.
Salavisa, I., Sousa, C., Fontes, M.
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Pyongyang-Moscow ties will widen across sectors

Emerald Expert Briefings
Headline NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA: Ties will widen across sectors
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‘Tis the SeasonHow the Nonprofit Sector “Shares” Itself Out of Impact

2010
Nonprofits, government, and philanthropy need to take up better sharing practices to advance nonprofits and the communities they aim to serve.
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The influence of business and political ties on supplier selection decisions: the case of the Nigerian public sector

International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2018
Extant relevant literature suggests that nonmarket elements such as social ties are important strategic options that may help organisations enhance their competitiveness relative to other competito...
Eyo Emmanel Essien   +3 more
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Transnational ties in technology-based sectors: the case of Indian software entrepreneurial firms in Italy

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2012
The paper aims to empirically analyse the differences present in transnational networking within the same ethnic group. Our study focuses on Indian software firms in Italy, a country where the standard variables defining the structural and agency conditions are weak: these permit to better appreciate the role and impact of ties on the performance of ...
Marco Cucculelli, Gabriele Morettini
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Sector Differences in Glass Ceiling in Sweden -Is It Tied to Occupational Segregation? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2010
This paper explores sector differences in how the gender wage gap varies across the wage distribution and the role of occupational segregation in explaining this variation for Sweden. Results indicate that the phenomenon known as the glass ceiling, i.e.
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Evolving stakeholder ties and co-creation in the agriculture sector: a psychological ownership perspective

Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the nature of stakeholder ties in the agriculture sector and to gain insights into how technology tools can be developed and marketed in the agricultural ecosystem, using a conceptual framework of psychological ownership and value co-creation.
Priyanka Jayashankar   +3 more
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Standard wars, tied standards, and network externality induced path dependence in the ICT sector

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2014
It is well-established that technological standards are subject to network externalities. These lead to lock-in situations with asymmetric (oligopolistic or monopolistic) industry structure and occasionally to persisting shortcomings in the current industry standard despite technically feasible alternatives.
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