Ingmar Zanger's research while affiliated with Bain & Company and other places

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We build on dynamic capability (DC) theory and apply inductive case study research to shed light on how new venture manufacturing firms develop and nurture supply chain (SC) capabilities. Our findings discern SC capabilities related to dimensions of DCs (sense, integrate, develop, reconfigure) and show how these SC capabilities evolve throughout ne...
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This study investigates the failure of social systems and tries to find a plausible mechanism. We observe stretched exponential distributions for failure of marriages in the U.S., UK, and Germany and extend evidence for power laws in large firms' failure in the U.S., and world-wide. Since summation of stretched exponential leads to power laws, one...
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Supply chain departments spend their time managing numerous projects that will improve and maintain their supply chains. Recent literature has most frequently described the content of these projects and their scheduling but neglected to include risk and uncertainty in the expected cost, profits and time durations of these projects. In this article,...

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... A more useful starting definition is provided by Putnam et al. (1993), who define social capital as the social structure that facilitates coordination and cooperation. Social capital is a critical factor for desirable economic, social, and political phenomena, and it is the foundation of sustainable community development (Fukuyama 2000;Grant 2001;Knack and Keefer 1997;La Porta et al. 1997;Nagaj and Szkudlarek 2019;Putnam 2000;Putnam et al. 1993;Zanger et al. 2018). ...
... This has led IoT to question how to act in the competitive arena, and to cause companies to reshape their organizational and operational structures. In order to assess the value of redesigning the strategy, a real growth option is an ideal tool [13]. In this way, real options may improve the ability to evaluate a new technology such as IoT, given that real options analysis is particularly appropriate to projects which involve significant uncertainty, but where flexibility in future decisions may help mitigate it [14]. ...