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- Bengtsson, Lars, et al.
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Knowledge Integration Challenges when Outsourcing Manufacturing
- 2011
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Ingår i: Knowledge Integration & Innovation. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780199693924 ; , s. 205-227
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Being R&D intensive has traditionally been seen as an impediment to outsourcing. This study confirms that empirically this was the case for a set of manufacturing industries in The Netherlands in the early 1990s, but also shows that R&D intensity became a positive predictor for changes in outsourcing levels over the 1990s, suggesting firms in R&D intensive industries have increasingly started to rely on partnership relations with outside suppliers. This confirms the need to move the analysis from scale, opportunism and appropriation concerns to a relational perspective when studying outsourcing in R&D intensive industries.
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- Dabhilkar, Mandar, et al.
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Trade-offs in Make-Buy Decisions : Exploring Operating Realities of Knowledge Integration and Innovation
- 2011
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Ingår i: Knowledge Integration & Innovation. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780199693924 ; , s. 228-245
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to sustain competitive advantages, many companies are being challenged to shift their strategy from "Closed Innovation" to "Open Innovation", and also to "Crowd Innovation". In "Closed Innovation", knowledge or information was created and stored in tightly integrated organizations. Their knowledge and information were the resources to be protected by companies. The concept of "Open Innovation" encourages companies to combine internal and external knowledge and information for new value propositions. Business alliances, joint-ventures and M&A are the typical activities in "Open Innovation". The drastic progress of the Internet is creating a new wave of innovation, called "Crowd Innovation". "Crowd Innovation" is one of the key factors for corporations to exploit the enormous knowledge and information generated exponentially by the crowd of anonymous people on the Internet. In this paper, the knowledge integration process for new value propositions in "Closed", "Open" and "Crowd Innovation" is discussed, and a proposed integration process is described.
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- Dabhilkar, Mandar
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Trade-offs in make-buy decisions
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. - : Elsevier. - 1478-4092 .- 1873-6505. ; 17:3, s. 158-166
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the previous literature uses transaction cost economics and the resource-based view to theoretically derive the benefits of outsourcing, it has so far overlooked how these theoretical underpinnings must be used to assess trade-offs involved in make-buy decisions as well. This study investigates trade-offs in make-buy decisions for the buying firm. It takes an operations strategy perspective and links manufacturing firms competitive priorities to outsourcing motives and resulting capabilities. Survey data from a representative sample of 136 manufacturing plants in Sweden is subjected to regressions analysis. In contrast to earlier empirical research, this study shows that resulting capabilities of strategic outsourcing initiatives are distinct, and, furthermore, do not emerge cumulatively. This has important implications for the ongoing debate over trade-offs in the operations strategy literature. Findings are clearly in support of the trade-off model and extend current research into the theoretical domain of make-buy decisions.
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