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The curvilinear effect of manufacturing outsourcing and captive-offshoring on firms' innovation: The role of temporal endurance

2019

Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the open debate in the literature on the effect of global sourcing strategies on firm performance by studying the consequences of manufacturing outsourcing and captive-offshoring for the innovation capability of the firm. We grounded our hypotheses based on the outsourcing and offshoring literature and by narrowing our focus to the effects of persisting in their adoption over time. We tested our hypotheses using data from a sample of 368 manufacturing companies listed on NASDAQ stock market. The paper provides theoretical explanations and empirical findings for the inverted U-shaped influence of keeping doing captive-offshoring on new product develo…

Economics and EconometricEconomics and Econometrics0211 other engineering and technologiesSample (statistics)02 engineering and technologyManagement Science and Operations ResearchTemporal enduranceCorporationIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringCaptive-offshoringOutsourcing0502 economics and businessBusiness Management and Accounting (all)External knowledge acquisitionAdaptation (computer science)Industrial organization021103 operations researchOffshoringbusiness.industry05 social sciencesSettore ING-IND/35 - Ingegneria Economico-GestionaleGeneral Business Management and AccountingOutsourcingLinear relationshipNew product developmentNew product developmentStock marketbusiness050203 business & managementInternational Journal of Production Economics
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