"The paper analyzes changes in suppliers’ organizational structures to deliver integrated solutions by examining the bundling across different project phases with a focus on realizing risk transfer and through-life innovation. A multiple,... more
"The paper analyzes changes in suppliers’ organizational structures to deliver integrated solutions by examining the bundling across different project phases with a focus on realizing risk transfer and through-life innovation. A multiple, longitudinal case study method is used to examine changes in integrated solution provision in Public Private Partnerships over a 15-year period. The study deploys rich data sets by combining 108 government reports with 38 interviews. Findings examine organizational transformation and suggest that as a response to the need to be competitive the solutions provider ‘unbundles’ the bundle of integrated solutions by creating sub-units to handle distinct phases. The paper questions whether bundling the different management and procurement phases of a major project into one contract is appropriate. Managers must weigh the transactional cost savings of dealing with a prime contractor against not only the transactional costs of dealing with distinct contractors for individual phases, but also the comparative ability of the two options to deliver.
This paper presents the development of kidney Tele- Ultrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the... more
Abstract: Major factors influencing water quality along a river are land use practices, seasonal hydro-meteorological conditions, groundwater interactions and wastewater discharges. These complex water quantity and water quality aspects... more
Abstract: Major factors influencing water quality along a river are land use practices, seasonal hydro-meteorological conditions, groundwater interactions and wastewater discharges. These complex water quantity and water quality aspects demand integrated solution approaches. The study links hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality models using the OpenMI standard to evaluate water quality in the Pinios River in Greece. OpenMI allows data to be exchanged at run time, between models from different providers, thus ...
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the... more
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the internet as its backbone. The system provides data sharing to allow remote collaboration, viewing, consultation, and diagnosis of medical data. The design is layered upon a standard known as
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the... more
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the internet as its backbone. The system provides data sharing to allow remote collaboration, viewing, consultation, and diagnosis of medical data. The design is layered upon a standard known as
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the... more
This paper presents the development of kidney TeleUltrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the internet as its backbone. The system provides data sharing to allow remote collaboration, viewing, consultation, and diagnosis of medical data. The design is layered upon a standard known as
This paper explores how companies in complex networks strive for inter-organizational power. Solution provision was chosen as the empirical context because of its highly networked nature and the complex power relationships within the... more
This paper explores how companies in complex networks strive for inter-organizational power. Solution provision was chosen as the empirical context because of its highly networked nature and the complex power relationships within the networks. We raise the level of analysis from buyer–supplier dyads to a network involving solution integrators, their suppliers, and the users of their respective solutions. Our findings demonstrated that the integrators and suppliers take action to shape their power sources on three different levels. In contrast to the literature regarding solution provision, our findings from the analysis of six embedded cases indicate that suppliers can also achieve structurally powerful network positions by skillfully focusing their development efforts on fostering the complementarities of power sources. In addition, our study indicates that integrators may find it notably challenging to achieve power over their suppliers by creating better access to customer information.
Highlights
• The paper explores how solution integrators and their suppliers act to achieve power.
• Empirical analyses of three integrator and three supplier cases are carried out.
• Power sources on three levels are affected: organization, relationship, and network.
• Suppliers can also achieve structurally powerful network positions.
• Integrators may find it very challenging to achieve strong power by information
