Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 2007 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This paper analyzes contracts (in particular as applied in inter-firm alliances) in highly innovative settings as organizational documents, thereby contributing in understanding the link between the organization of inter-firm relations and an increasingly important dimension of competitiveness, namely innovation. It employs a conceptual framework that integrates organizational theory of formal coordination with the prevailing economic perspectives on contracting, providing a new way of analyzing contracts according to the intensity at which they incorporate market-like mechanisms, hierarchical and bureaucratic mechanisms, and a usually neglected array of associational and democratic mechanisms, as related to the level of uncertainty. The framework is empirically applied to content-analyze the written agreements regulating inter-firm alliances for innovation in a comparative case study approach