Interfirm Cooperation: The Need of Constructing a "Theoretical Paradigm"
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Robson Antonio Grassi
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- Keywords:
- Empresas - Fusão e incorporação, Empresas - Acordos e parcerias
- Abstract
- This paper proposes a redefinition of the debate concerning to the inter-firm cooperation. In order to reach this objective, instead of to use the concept of inter-firm network, as common in many studies on the theme, this analysis is based on the idea that cooperation is a strategy of the individual firm. It is considered two main issues (efficiency and coordination) for the understanding of cooperation, both needing detailed analysis. The paper concludes that only with the elaboration of a “theoretical paradigm” that includes the firm’s approaches of Dynamic Capabilities and of Transaction Costs, besides elements of the Game Theory, such issues and the interfirm cooperation will be fully understood.
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- Published
- 2008-08-28
- Issue
- Vol. 28 No. 1 (2007)
- Section
- Artigos
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