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    <title>Social capital determinants of preferential resource allocation in regional clusters</title>
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    <description>Title: Social capital determinants of preferential resource allocation in regional clusters
Authors: Pulles, Niels J.; Schiele, Holger
Abstract: Regional clusters are known to facilitate firms in achieving higher levels of competitive advantage. This observation suggests that cluster firms manage to obtain better competitive resources than firms outside the cluster. The strong social ties in regional clusters are considered to be a crucial factor in the resource exchange between cluster firms. In this paper, we integrate this social perspective from the cluster literature with a recent stream in the resource-based view (RBV) literature. This stream seeks to explain the phenomenon of preferential resource allocation. That is, how can firms obtain better resources from a resource environment that is shared with competitors? Although preferential resource allocation has revealed to be a relevant concept, little is known about its actual antecedents. We introduce a conceptual framework that builds on the social interactions among cluster firms to explain the concept of preferential resource allocation. More specifically, we develop propositions on the antecedents of preferential resource allocation by building on the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital theory, and a firm' s embeddedness in a regional cluster. In so doing, this paper provides insights that may contribute to a better understanding of the competitive advantage of cluster firms, and it opens onto current streams in the RBV literature.</description>
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    <title>Performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis: A discourse-analytical study</title>
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    <description>Title: Performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis: A discourse-analytical study
Authors: Hartz, Ronald; Fassauer, Gabriele
Abstract: Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the validity of the performance principle as a normative pillar of the economic order was also called into question. Based on the discourse contained in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the following study reconstructs the topoi of criticism and justification as problematizations of a 'bonus culture', with corresponding reference to the performance principle as a 'discursive resource'. In this way the aim is to make a general contribution to the understanding of the social embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis, while at the same time furthering the debate on the normative validity of the performance principle.</description>
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    <title>Bridging the institutional void: An analytical concept to develop valuable cluster services</title>
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    <description>Title: Bridging the institutional void: An analytical concept to develop valuable cluster services
Authors: Schrammel, Tine
Abstract: Public policy and cluster management face a common challenge in developing sustainable clusters. Many clusters report difficulties acquiring membership fees once the governmental subsidies come to an end, which brings doubts as to the cluster management's capabilities and likewise to the public policy design. This paper applies the theory of institutional voids and elaborates a theoretical framework to identify cluster services. It shows that analyzing the specific institutional environment of the cluster enables the identification of valuable cluster services. As the identified institutional voids impose a competitive disadvantage on the companies, such services will increase their willingness to pay. Therewith, the article combines cluster literature and institutional theory to draw synergies on participation incentives.</description>
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    <title>Embedded flexibility strategies and diversity within national institutional frameworks: How many flexibility profiles are in the German model?</title>
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    <description>Title: Embedded flexibility strategies and diversity within national institutional frameworks: How many flexibility profiles are in the German model?
Authors: Kirchner, Stefan
Abstract: The varieties of capitalism approach (VoC) and the related research assume that German firms adopt an internal flexibility profile that corresponds with the national institutional framework. Recent empirical studies, however, have found substantial diversity in realized firm-level strategies. This article investigates the actual distribution of flexibility practices in German establishments. Latent class analysis revealed four flexibility profiles, including a dual profile that combines internal and external flexibility as well as a low flexibility profile that is characterized by an overall low importance of flexibility practices. The distribution points to significant diversity of flexibility profiles within the German economy and emphasizes the role of industry and firm size as crucial factors for the externalization of flexibility and a growing dualism within the German economy. : German model ; internal and external flexibility ; temporary agency work ; outsourcing ; latent class analysis</description>
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