Social cross-functional vendor selection in technologically uncertain sourcing situations

Social Expectations Bias Decision-Making in Uncertain Inter-Personal Situations

Understanding the role that social cues have on interpersonal choice, and their susceptibility to contextual effects, is of core importance to models of social decision-making. Language, on the other hand, is one of the main means of communication during social interactions in our culture. The present experiments tested whether positive and negative linguistic descriptions of alleged partners i...

Governance of supplier collaboration in technologically uncertain NPD projects

Functional fixedness in a technologically sparse culture.

Problem solving can be inefficient when the solution requires subjects to generate an atypical function for an object and the object's typical function has been primed. Subjects become "fixed" on the design function of the object, and problem solving suffers relative to control conditions in which the object's function is not demonstrated. In the current study, such functional fixedness was dem...

Virtual Transnationalism: Technologically Supported Social Network Phenomenon

INTRODUCTION In a world of digital connections that seem to span the globe with ease, social network sites, similar to instant messaging and email before them, have radically reduced the costs of relational upkeep regardless of where in the developed world people may be. Social relationships rely on communication to survive and physical distance remained a difficult barrier to surmount prior to...

Global Sourcing and Firm Selection

Which firms find it optimal to integrate their input suppliers into the firm boundaries of control (vertical integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides novel evidence on these questions based on a Spanish firm-level data set. We find that firms selecting into strategies of vertical integration and of offshor...