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Bringing Together Strategic Outsourcing and Corporate Strategy: Outsourcing Motives and Risks
Bertrand Quelin,Francois Duhamel +1 more
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In this paper, the authors report the results of a study on the motives of corporate headquarters in large European manufacturing firms for engaging in outsourcing and the risks they perceive to be associated with strategic outsourcing operations.About:
This article is published in European Management Journal.The article was published on 2003-10-01. It has received 428 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Knowledge process outsourcing & Outsourcing.read more
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Why are companies offshoring innovation ?: the emerging global race for talent
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically study determinants of decision by companies to offshore innovation activities and conclude that the emerging shortage of highly skilled science and engineering talent in the US and the need to access qualified personnel are important explanatory factors for offshoring innovation decisions.
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30+ years of research and practice of outsourcing – Exploring the past and anticipating the future
Jussi Hätönen,Taina Eriksson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the development of outsourcing strategy from a practical as well as a theoretical perspective from its birth up to today, and through providing insights from managers in the information technology industry, they aim at providing a glimpse from the future.
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A review of outsourcing from the resource‐based view of the firm
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the principal works that address outsourcing from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) is presented, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of outsourcing and facilitating future empirical works.
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Complexity of Outsourcing Contracts and Ex Post Transaction Costs: An Empirical Investigation*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm to study outsourcing agreements and develop an original approach of contract complexity and analyse the links among exchange hazards (i.e. specificity and environmental uncertainty), the contractual aspects of outsourcing (control, incentives, penalties, price and flexibility clauses) and level of ex post transaction costs.
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Developing a decision model for business process outsourcing
TL;DR: This paper identifies factors affecting the BPO decision and structures a decision model using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to assist management in making better decisions in outsourcing their business processes and help them to obtain the most benefits from BPO.
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Testing alternative theories of the firm: transaction cost, knowledge-based, and measurement explanations for make-or-buy decisions in information services
Laura Poppo,Todd Zenger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the degree of support for different explanations of boundary choice in information services and conclude that the integration of transaction cost, knowledge-based, and measurement reasoning is likely to be complex.
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How to Manage an IT Outsourcing Alliance
F. W. McFarlan,Richard L. Nolan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors offer their suggestions for determining when to outsource and how to structure and manage the resulting alliance, and view the outsourcing agreement as a strategic alliance and manage it as such.