A Decision Model for Configuration of Firm Boundaries in the Network Economy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Advances in telecommunications and E-business technologies are enabling rapidly changing firm boundaries and large-scale reorganization of business processes. Business processes consist increasingly of information that is, or can be, digitized and transmitted from and to virtually anywhere in the world. Thus, the procedural and geographical barriers to outsourcing of business processes have been substantially reduced, if not eliminated. This reengineering of the business processes is enabling the reorganization of the corporation and its business model, and may eventually help realize the virtual enterprise. However, there are barriers to proper analysis of the business process outsourcing decision. These barriers include transaction cost, opportunistic behavior (risk), and sunk costs considerations. Addressing these inherent barriers, this paper proposes a bias-free reengineering tool to aid in E-business process outsourcing decisions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it