Building information modeling (BIM) plays an important role in furthering value-creation of construction projects by advocating the inter-firm cooperation.
For family businesses, entering into inter-firm cooperation with another family business can be a fruitful strategy for sustaining business success and ensuring survival.
While inter-firm cooperation is expected to pave the way for new innovative business opportunities, it has proved to be highly risky and difficult.
Considering the agreement as a collection of different types of more or less codified rules, we show that their degree of codification and some other characteristics have an impact on the process of inter-firm cooperation.
When implementing BIM, however, individual firms inherently safeguard their self-interests regardless of the fact that inter-firm cooperation might reap joint BIM benefits for a project overall, which epitomizes a typical problem of moral hazards in project-based organizations.
Finally, the study is limited to firms in Norway, which is a high-trust society where network organization may be more effective, and which therefore has a long tradition of inter-firm cooperation in innovation processes.
These include the benefits of market access and skilled labor, the use of advanced technologies and the desire to benefit other less developed counterparts, and intensive inter-firm cooperation.
In a new poll conducted by IranPoll.com, a Toronto-based opinion research firm, in cooperation with the University of Maryland, a majority (57%) of Iranians backed a deal.
If the profits from the trading are large enough and the person is a corporate official or works for an investment firm, then cooperation may be the only option to avoid a recommended sentence that could easily reach well over a decade.
Our results show that a firm's cooperation activities are closely linked to the characteristics of the industry and the characteristics of the firm.
In biofilm, microbial cells live in a customized micro-niche in a complex microbial homeostatically stable community having a firm metabolic cooperation, which renders ecologically different characters to the microbes (Costerton et al. 1995).
