{"title":"Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Emergence of Platform Based Ecosystems","authors":"R. K. Murthy, A. Madhok","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3758116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3758116","url":null,"abstract":"Though the burgeoning literature on platform ecosystem has sought to understand different aspects of this emerging phenomenon, the topic of ecosystem emergence has not received enough attention. In this paper, we identify the conditions under which ecosystems emerge and explain why they emerge in different formats. We focus on the problem as the unit of analysis, such that the solutions to the problem create the value propositions of the ecosystem. We extend the problem-solving perspective to ecosystems and identify conditions for ecosystem emergence around problem dimensions, platform sponsors’ resource configuration and capabilities, and market attributes employed. Finally, we introduce the construct of marketness to ecosystems to explain the emergence of heterogenous ecosystems by mapping the different conditions for ecosystem emergence at various levels of marketness. Our paper is one of the few to fully explain ecosystem emergence as it overcomes the challenges of explaining the emergence of ex-ante unknown actors.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122731529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Entrepreneurship: Social Enterprises and Their Markets in Bulgaria","authors":"V. Terziev, Marin Georgiev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3449929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3449929","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade the concept of development and promotion of social economy and social entrepreneurship are part of EU policy to tackle the social exclusion of persons in a vulnerable position. Also, the model of social economy is one of the key instruments for achieving social objectives within the framework of the sustainable and inclusive growth. Social benefits are measured by integration and employment of disadvantaged people, the contribution to the process of social inclusion of other vulnerable people, and the economic indicator is expressed by saved public funds for social welfare, on the one hand, and the additional funds compensating the social costs of long-term unemployment .","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130286071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfinance Governance: A Multi-theoretical Approach for Ascertaining the Wider Stakeholder Influencing Forces","authors":"I. A. Rahman, M. Hussain, Md Suliman Hossin","doi":"10.21315/aamj2019.24.s1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamj2019.24.s1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars argue that the agency theory has some limitations as the sustaining theory of governance. It is its inability to distinguish the wider stakeholder influencing forces effecting on organizations. This paper delivers a concise picture incorporating other management-based theories to supplement agency theory in distinguishing the wider stakeholder influencing forces as well as the consequential extended governance standard it creates. Yet, for developing the theory-building approach it has reviewed and critically examined the existing literature. Furthermore, a circumstance is built to assimilate four existing theories that supplement each other to distinguish the wider stakeholder influencing forces. Finally, further studies have been recommended to certify the approach with wide-ranging real-life institutional settings.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121764421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies of Narco-Trafficking Organization and Its Objectives","authors":"Chenoy Ceil","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3521067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3521067","url":null,"abstract":"Diversification as a strategy is important when the market is mature and there are not enough expansion opportunities in the same business line. In the 1980s and 1990s, the NTOs were able to supply cocaine to the largest consumer of the product. The NTOs also began to consolidate the local drug consumer market in Mexico by involving local people and building local dependency on drugs. The drug cartels were all looking at competitive advantages that would help them sustain under the current economic situation.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128853207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Industry Practices, Support Parents, Liveliness Organization, and Learning Achievement of Student Employment Readiness SMK","authors":"Reftina Muktia Aroliana, Siti Yusrinia, Osly Usman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3314819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3314819","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine whether there is influence between Industi Practices, Support Parents, activeness Organization, Organization liveliness, and Achievement against SMK Students Work Readiness.<br><br>The research was carried out for nearly three months since the month of November 2018 to January 2019. The method used was survey with quantitative approach. The population in the form of student vocational schools (SMK), both class X, XI, and XII, with the number of 220 respondents. For sampling technique used purposive sampling technique nonprobability student / senior high school students of class X to XII in Jakarta and several cities in Java with the number 220. Data collection techniques using literature techniques and questionnaires and using SmartPLS version 3.0. Partial Least Square (PLS) with structural equation analysis (SEM) and obtained positive results from all four variables exist. It can be concluded that the Industrial Practice, Parental Support, activeness of the Organization.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121083355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Fit Between Manufacturing Strategy, Strategic Orientation, and Marketing Strategy on Business Performance","authors":"Yue-Yang Chen, I-Jen Wu, I-Chen Tsai","doi":"10.32327/ijmess/7.4.2018.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32327/ijmess/7.4.2018.19","url":null,"abstract":"As the world has become closer and increasingly connected, business competition becomes more aggressive. As a result, marketing which has evolved for decades becomes so vital that no company can survive without it. Though marketing strategy and manufacturing strategy are organizationally separate in most firms, without a coordination of these two functional entities, an organization's survival in the market could potentially be jeopardized. Research has proved that these dimensions have a significant impact on organizational performance. Yet there is very little research being done from a holistic perspective in examining the fit relationship between marketing, manufacturing, and business strategy. Therefore, this research tries to look at those dimensions from a fit as covariation perspective. A fit model was proposed and exemplified using empirical data collected from Taiwan's top ranking companies in the manufacturing and service industry. Findings showed that the fit between marketing strategy, manufacturing strategy, and strategic orientation has a significant and positive effect on organizational performance.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129534276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theo Benos, N. Kalogeras, Martin Wetzels, K. Ruyter, J. Pennings
{"title":"Harnessing a ‘Currency Matrix’ for Performance Measurement in Cooperatives: A Multi-Phased Study","authors":"Theo Benos, N. Kalogeras, Martin Wetzels, K. Ruyter, J. Pennings","doi":"10.3390/SU10124536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/SU10124536","url":null,"abstract":"The cooperative organizational form is by nature a sustainable one, which has proved to be resilient in the face of crises and a solid lever in addressing present-day societal challenges. Still, little is known about its socio-economic impact. Also, despite the plethora of studies on cooperative performance, research remains inconclusive about how to best measure it. In fact, scholarly work has largely favored the use of appraisal tools reflecting those of investor-owned firms (IOFs), having undermined the dual idiosyncratic nature of the cooperative organizational form, which is manifest in the business and social-membership objectives. The goal of this article is to fill these gaps by delivering a comprehensive dashboard for cooperative performance assessment that harmonizes business–social aspects and catalogs the basic components for future attempts. To reach this goal, we used an extensive review of empirical research in cooperative performance (phase 1) and a Delphi study with 14 experts (phase 2). In addition, we reviewed comparable research efforts for a business form (social enterprises) that combines business with social goals and faces similar challenges (phase 3). This inquiry was particularly insightful for the social perspective and the overlooked role of cooperatives as a socially-embedded organizational form that hardly documents its societal impact and outreach.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127739163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Alternative Quantitative and Qualitative Analytical Tool to Evaluate Joint-Venture Negotiations: The Joint-Venture Negotiation Box (JVN-BOX)","authors":"Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada, Ibrahim Ndoma","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3167712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3167712","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we introduce the Joint-Venture Negotiation Box (JVN-Box), a new methodological approach to evaluate the negotiation between two players in a joint-venture partnership. The JVN-Box primarily calculates a suitable point of balance between two players and hence, generates harmony in a joint venture partnership. Since the division between players always depends on the opportunity cost and incentives in the process of negotiation, the study proposes the need for players to diligently engage in formal discussions to find the most suitable point of balance to consolidate a joint venture partnership. The JVN-Box helps to find that suitable balance point and hinges the success of any joint venture negotiation between two players on the effort of hard work by the weak player to step up and sacrifice welfare to step down from the stronger player.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127506801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming Organizational Ambidexterity: A New Converged Approach","authors":"I. Christensen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3121726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3121726","url":null,"abstract":"Shifting organizational environments contribute to high mortality of the organizations and to sustain competitive advantage, organizations must develop and manage capabilities to renew themselves; this requires simultaneous conduct of exploitation and exploration through two organizational approaches – simultaneous and sequential approaches of ambidexterity. Both are argued potentially viable; however, there is no clear evidence favoring either approach, which is the value-added theoretical contribution of this paper. We propose the Converged approach – reached through the Punctuated Equilibrium theoretical model and, hence, organizational ambidexterity is for the first time operationalized over two periods – period of incremental change and period of ferment. The Converged approach argues that the organization supports only exploitation during the period of incremental change, while during the period of ferment, the organization supports exploitation and exploration, integrating the advantages and mitigates the disadvantages of both existing approaches.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130974571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical and Methodical Aspects of Crowdsourcing: Effectiveness and Its Measuring. A Conceptual Paper","authors":"Regina Lenart-Gansiniec","doi":"10.7341/20171343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7341/20171343","url":null,"abstract":"In our tmes, a growing interest of organizatons, including also the public ones, in crowdsourcing, can be observed. It enables to acquire knowledge located in virtual communites. However, despite many benefts, crowdsourcing initatves very ofen fail. Therefore, a need for their evaluaton is recognized. Nonetheless, in the subject literature, a shortall of criteria and methods of evaluatng crowdsourcing may be observed. The existng proposals do not ensure a comprehensive picture of crowdsourcing, and they do not take into account its multdimensionality. The artcle is intended for a presentaton of the ways of evaluatng crowdsourcing and an original proposal of a list of indicators, which may be used for evaluatng crowdsourcing in public organizatons. The artcle presents the original proposal of actvites, by which it is possible to assess the degree of implementaton of the adopted tasks and determine the level of obtained crowdsourcing results. The conducted research allowed to recognize that it is possible to measure crowdsourcing results using quanttatve and qualitatve indicators. A prerequisite for selectng the appropriate means is frst of all to indicate the purposes for which crowdsourcing should be used.","PeriodicalId":352730,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures (Topic)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130565847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}