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For more information on outsourcing and transaction costs see:
http://www.encycogov.com/B11TransactionCostEconomics.asp
http://www.ecsocman.edu.ru/images/pubs/2003/03/14/0000065779/bibl_harvey.doc

For a useful summary of some of the seminal writings on information systems outsourcing see: http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/transactioncosteconomics.htm
For more information on Merck’s strategic alliances, and alliances in general see: http://www.iir-events.com/IIR-conf/LifeSciences/EventView.aspx?EventID=873 and download the file Alliance Management at Merck, Embracing Partnerships and / or the file entitled Developing and Managing Strategic Alliance News.

For some information on multi-channel retailing see: http://www.infosys.com/amr-cp/multi-channel-retailing-pov.pdf. There are also some useful articles accessible via the McKinsey Quarterly portal, http://www.mckinsey.com/practices/retail/knowledge/knowledge_multichannel.asp

For some information about Boeing’s outsourcing strategy, and some comments on the recent problems that it has been experiencing with it, visit: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3618/is_200403/ai_n9375403, http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/11/news/companies/bc.boeing.787.ap/?postversion=2007121111, and http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q4/071010d_nr.html

For Michael Porter’s views on virtual value chains – on the internet – see: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/2165.html
For some example of value chain analyses see:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5431.html and http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-059.pdf
http://broadstuff.com/archives/573-The-Economics-of-the-Broadband-Media-Value-Chain.html

For some more details of the Ekins and Dahlström value chain analysis of the iron and steel industry view the following two sites: http://www.psi.org.uk/publications/archivepdfs/environment/economicdimensionsExecSum.pdf
http://www.psi.org.uk/publications/archivepdfs/environment/finalprojectreport.pdf

For another example on a value chain in a networked industry see: http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/centres/isrc/documents/EMJ_Peppard_Rylander_April06FromValueChaintoValueNetwork.pdf

For more information on Airbus’ structure and alliance partners see: http://www.airbus.com/en/corporate/people/Airbus_short_history.html, http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article265627.ece and http://www.airbus.com/en/corporate/people/company_structure/

Cemex’s website is at: http://www.cemex.com/tc/tc_lp.asp.