Intra- and Interfirm Coordination of Export Manufacturers: A Cluster Analysis of Indigenous Chinese Exporters

Zhang, Chun; Hu, Zuohao; Gu, Flora F.

doi:10.1509/jimk.16.3.108

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“…In particular, the association of organizations' managerial ties (hereafter MT, connections with executives at other businesses, and officials of government agencies) and business performance has drawn many scholars' attention (Acquaah, 2007;Guo, Xu & Jacobs, 2014;Ismail, Ford, Wu & Peng, 2013;Li, Zhou, & Shao, 2009;Luo, Hsu, & Liu, 2008;Park & Luo, 2001;Peng & Luo, 2000;Xin & Pearce, 1996;Zhang, Hu & Gu, 2008).…”

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Managerial Ties, Market Orientation, and Export Performance: Chinese Firms Experience

Yan

Cheng

2017

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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Managerial Ties, Market Orientation, and Export Performance: Chinese Firms Experience

Yan

Cheng

2017

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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“…the relationship duration and exchange frequency. We performed the cluster analysis several times and chose the optimal number of clusters using silhouette analysis and the Tukey test (De Bruyn et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2008). The initial cluster analysis suggested eight clusters, while the Tukey test showed that these clusters could be grouped into four homogenous subsets based on the means of both control factors.…”

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Identifying the resource conditions that maximize the relationship between ambidexterity and new product performance

Heirati

O’Cass

Sok

2017

JBIM

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Managing business relationships successfully is critical for many professional service firms (PSFs) in order to be able to address complex client needs. Furthermore, the projectbased nature of PSFs' work puts pressure on them to retain clients across project periods.Drawing on both net effect and configurational perspectives, this study provides a holistic understanding of the relative importance, and of the interplay of social and economic determinants of business relationship performance in the context of dynamic relationships between PSFs and their clients. Using data from 297 business clients, the results reveal that, overall, social determinants are more important than economic determinants as drivers of the client's willingness to cooperate with a PSF in future. The importance of social determinants increases further in later relationship lifetime phases. The configurational analysis also reveals several equifinal constellations of social and economic determinants across the lifetime phases to drive a client's willingness to cooperate in future. Therefore, no single determinant by itself is sufficient for ensuring relationship performance. We advance the literature by showing that distinct constellations of social and economic determinants are required to achieve the desired outcome, and that these constellations change across business relationship lifetime phases.

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“…Our results showed a seasonal pattern of CO 2 flux in this semiarid grassland (Figures 4 and 5), which was mainly due to variations in plant growth throughout the growing season. A previous study at the same site showed that S. capillata is characterized by a higher growth rate early in the season and higher aboveground biomass accumulation at mid-season [29]. High growth rates often produce more negative NEEs and, thus, high rates of ecosystem C sequestration [30][31][32].…”

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Stability of Ecosystem CO2 Flux in Response to Changes in Precipitation in a Semiarid Grassland

Bao

Tian

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Sustainability

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) flux provides feedback between C cycling and the climatic system. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the direction and magnitude of the responses of this process to precipitation changes, hindering accurate prediction of C cycling in a changing world. We examined the responses of ecosystem CO2 flux to ambient precipitation and experimentally decreased (−35%) and increased precipitation (+20%) in a semiarid grassland in China between July 2013 and September 2015. The measured CO2 flux components included the gross ecosystem productivity (GEP), net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE), ecosystem respiration (Re), and soil respiration (Rs). The results showed that the seasonal and diurnal patterns of most components of ecosystem CO2 flux were minimally affected by precipitation treatments, with less than 4% changes averaged across the three growing seasons. GEP and NEE had a quadratic relationship, while Re and Rs increased exponentially with soil temperature. GEP, RE, and Rs, however, decreased with soil moisture. Decreased precipitation reduced the dependence of CO2 flux on soil temperature but partly increased the dependence on soil moisture; in contrast, increased precipitation had the opposite influence. Our results suggested a relatively stable CO2 flux in this semiarid grassland across the tested precipitation regimes.

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Intra- and Interfirm Coordination of Export Manufacturers: A Cluster Analysis of Indigenous Chinese Exporters

Cited by 38 publications

References 58 publications

Managerial Ties, Market Orientation, and Export Performance: Chinese Firms Experience

Managerial Ties, Market Orientation, and Export Performance: Chinese Firms Experience

Identifying the resource conditions that maximize the relationship between ambidexterity and new product performance

Stability of Ecosystem CO2 Flux in Response to Changes in Precipitation in a Semiarid Grassland

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