The Dynamic Limits of Specialization: Vertical Integration Reconsidered

By Eugenia Cacciatori, Michael G. Jacobides. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Knowledge Beyond the Individual? Making Sense of a Notion of Collective Knowledge in Organization Theory (2012, background): “…were observed for the British building industry, leading to the emergence of all-in-one solution providers covering large chunks of the value chain (Cacciatori & Jacobides, 2005).1 Clearly, these considerations are only preliminary and somewhat tentative, as their main objective is to give a…”
• Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees? Productive Capabilities and Gains From Trade as Drivers of Vertical Scope (2005, unknown): “An additional motivation to integrate, discussed by Cacciatori and Jacobides (2005) , consists of the desire to fend off commoditization by providing ‘all-in-one’ packaged services.”
• Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions, and the boundaries of firms (2007, background): “Jacobides and Billinger (2006) went on to observe the process of vertical separation within a single firm, while Cacciatori and Jacobides (2005) documented the integration of an industry (construction).”
• Designing the Boundaries of the Firm: From Make, Buy, or Ally to the Dynamic Benefits of Vertical Architecture (2006, unknown): “The redesigning of Fashion Inc. led to different degrees of permeability, i.e., different ways to interface with customers and suppliers, internal and external alike.”
• The Architecture and Design of Organizational Capabilities (2006, unknown): “For instance, in a study of the UK construction sector, Cacciatori and Jacobides (2005) suggest that the division of labour between the different types of organizational participants set in motion a trajectory of capability development.”
• The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “…poorly Total 4 100 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icc/article-abstract/25/5/709/2198460 by guest on 27 July 2018 unresolved technical interdependencies in the building process led specialist firms to merge, leading to significant industry consolidation (Cacciatori and Jacobides, 2005).”
• The Effects of Innovation on Vertical Structure: Perspectives on Transaction Costs and Competences (2008, unknown): “Christensen et al. (2002) seem to agree with the KBV perspective.”