Organizing Industrial Activities Across Borders (Routledge by Anna Dubois

By Anna Dubois

The best way business actions are organised between agencies is a basic theoretical crisis. In perform, companies have stumbled on those concerns, often called make-or-buy matters, tricky to examine. setting up business actions throughout enterprise barriers succeeds in combining an research of the theoretical history to such concerns with an in-depth case learn of the sensible outcomes and implications. The booklet is a crucial contribution to the literature on networks, company relationships, out-sourcing and the department of labour.

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A company has resources in its purchasing, production and marketing functions to co-ordinate these activity chains. The resources needed to handle the activity links include knowledge of the activities to which the individual firm’s activities are connected. The joint ability to co-ordinate the activity chains among the firms involved sequentially and in parallel is therefore also an important resource. This resource may, when interdependent activities are organised across firm boundaries, be attributable to the interaction among the firms involved rather than to the individual firms.

For example, activity B1 may share certain resources with activity B3. Thirdly, the individual activity is one among all those undertaken within the boundary of a particular firm. Activity B1 is related to activities A1–3, B3 and C1–2 in this way. It is important to notice how the three dimensions are interrelated. Individual activities are interlinked both in terms of common resource utilisation and also in sequence, which means that a change of one individual activity may impact in very different ways, and to different extents, on other activities.

This will be the case when some of the resources activated by the activities can be shared among them to some extent. In other words, this may be an efficient solution if this firm’s customers have similar needs with reference to the activities required to satisfy them. Then a fair assumption would be that what can be done for each customer in terms of efficiency is dependent upon, or a function of, what is done for the other customers. And therefore, with reference to the resources used, this is dependent on (a) the degree of similarity of the customers’ needs (in terms of all activities directed to them), and (b) the economies of scale that can be achieved.

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