Mari Sako

University of Oxford - Said Business School

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Oxford, OX1 1HP

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1.

Outsourcing and Offshoring: Key Trends and Issues

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Aug 2009
Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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AI-Enabled Business Models in Legal Services: From Traditional Law Firms to Next-Generation Law Companies?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2019
John Armour and Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 2,101 (15,195)
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Artificial intelligence, business models, complementarities, professional service firms, legal services

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Augmented Lawyering

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper 558/2020
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2020
John Armour, Richard Parnham and Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 1,577 (23,747)

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Artificial Intelligence, Legal Profession, Law Firm Organization, Lawtech, Future of Legal Services, Legal Technology

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Offshoring of Business Services and its Impact on the UK Economy

Advanced Institute Management (AIM) Research, November 2004
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Aug 2009
Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith and Mari Sako
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 1,206 (35,207)
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Sustainability of Business Service Outsourcing: The Case of Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO)

Advanced Institute of Management Research Paper No. 019
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Nov 2008
Mari Sako and Abigail Tierney
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford
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Scaling Up Firms in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Fintech and Lawtech Ecosystems Compared

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Feb 2020
Mari Sako, Matthias Qian, Mark Verhagen and Richard Parnham
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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Entrepreneurial ecosystem, social ties, network analysis, Fintech, Lawtech, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Burning Glass

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The Unbundling of Corporate Functions: The Evolution of Shared Services and Outsourcing in Human Resource Management

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Aug 2009
Howard Gospel and Mari Sako
King's College London - The Management Centre and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 645 (82,723)
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Lawtech: Levelling the Playing Field in Legal Services?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Apr 2021
John Armour and Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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legal services, legal tech, lawtech, access to justice

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A Taxonomy for Technology Venture Ecosystems

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2021
Mari Sako and Matthias Qian
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford
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entrepreneurship, taxonomy, venture ecosystem, fintech, lawtech, healthtech, proptech

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From Governance to Strategy: Injecting Management Studies into Global Value Chains

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jul 2015
Mari Sako and Ezequiel Zylberberg
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Firm-Level Strategy and Global Value Chains

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 May 2018
Mari Sako and Ezequiel Zylberberg
University of Oxford - Said Business School and MIT Industrial Performance Center
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firm strategy, management, governance, innovation, outsourcing, economic development

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Future of Professional Work: Evidence from Legal Jobs in Britain and the United States

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 02 May 2022
Mari Sako, Matthias Qian and Jacopo Attolini
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford and Oxford Internet Institute
Downloads 227 (267,353)
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Future of work, system of professions, digital technology, lawyers, data scientists, Burning Glass Technologies

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Organizational Diversity and Institutional Change: Evidence from Financial and Labour Markets in Japan

Advanced Institute of Management Research Paper No. 042
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Dec 2008
Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Knowledge Similarity Among Founders and Joiners: Impact on Venture Scaleup in Fintech and Lawtech

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Mari Sako, Matthias Qian and Mark Verhagen
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Downloads 172 (344,788)

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Entrepreneurship, founder knowledge domains, early venture employees, social ties, network analysis, fintech, lawtech, Burning Glass, Crunchbase, LinkedIn.

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Professionals on Corporate Boards: How Do They Affect the Bottom Line?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Mari Sako and Katsuyuki Kubo
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Waseda University
Downloads 150 (387,134)
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Professional-directors, board of directors, lawyers, accountants, corporate governance

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Strategy Meets Institutions: The Transformation of Management-Labor Relations at Deutsche Telekom and NTT

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 59, No. 3, April 2006
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 May 2009
Mari Sako and Gregory Jackson
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Freie Universität Berlin
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strategy, industrial relations, restructuring, comparative institutional analysis, unions

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The Evolution of the ICT Start-Up Eco-System in Japan: From Corporate Logic to Venture Logic?

Saïd Business School WP 2016-30, Forthcoming, Tsutomu Nakano (ed.) The Japanese Business System in Evolution: New Directions, Breaks, and Emerging Practices, Routledge
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Dec 2016
Masahiro Kotosaka and Mari Sako
Keio University and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 121 (457,880)

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The Effect of Coordination Requirements on Sourcing Decisions: Evidence from Patent Prosecution Services

Forthcoming at the Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2021
George Chondrakis, Eduardo Melero and Mari Sako
ESADE Business School, Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Business Administration and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 92 (555,591)
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vertical integration, coordination, plural sourcing, AIPA, patent prosecution

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LEVERAGING OR OVERCOMING DISTANCE? GLOBAL STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS

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Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jun 2024
Mari Sako and Jeffrey Peo
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Distance, Professional Services, Global Value Chains, Virtual Teams, Platforms

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How Technology is (or Is Not) Transforming Law Firms

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 19, pp. 299-317, 2023
Posted: 20 Oct 2023
Ian Rodgers, John Armour and Mari Sako
University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Said Business School

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When Suppliers Shift My Boundaries: Supplier Employee Mobility and Its Impact on Buyer Firms’ Sourcing Strategy

Chondrakis, G, Sako, M. When suppliers shift my boundaries: Supplier employee mobility and its impact on buyer firms' sourcing strategy. Strat Mgmt J. 2020; 41: 1682– 1711. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3154
Posted: 17 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2021
George Chondrakis and Mari Sako
ESADE Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School

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firm boundary, plural sourcing, employee mobility, contracting costs, patent prosecution

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How Do Plural-Sourcing Firms Make-and-Buy? The Impact of Supplier Portfolio Design

How Do Plural-Sourcing Firms Make and Buy? The Impact of Supplier Portfolio Design, Organization Science, 2016, 27:5, 1161-1182
Posted: 19 Jun 2019
Mari Sako, George Chondrakis and Paul M. Vaaler
University of Oxford - Said Business School, ESADE Business School and University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Law School and Carlson School of Management

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make-and-buy, plural sourcing, supplier portfolio design, contracting strategy, legal services

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Dynamic Capabilities: Implications for Firm Boundaries and Organizational Design

Dynamic capabilities: Implications for firm boundaries and organizational design (2015) Teece, D., & Leih, S. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities, Oxford University Press
Posted: 19 Jun 2019
Mari Sako and George Chondrakis
University of Oxford - Said Business School and ESADE Business School

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dynamic capabilities, ordinary capabilities, firm boundaries, organizational design, theories of the firm, knowledge domains, organizational routines

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Profiting from Business Model Innovation: Evidence from Pay-as-You-Drive Auto Insurance

Research Policy, Forthcoming
Posted: 06 May 2012 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013
Panos Desyllas and Mari Sako
University of Bath School of Management and University of Oxford - Said Business School

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Business model innovation, Intellectual property, Pay-As-You-Drive insurance

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Management Innovation in Supply Chain: Appreciating Chandler in the Twenty-First Century

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 399-429, 2010
Posted: 26 Apr 2010
Susan Helper and Mari Sako
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Economics and University of Oxford - Said Business School

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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Implications for Productivity of Business Services

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 499-512, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Mari Sako
University of Oxford - Said Business School

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