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A strategic needs perspective on operations outsourcing and other inter-firm relationships
2013
Abstract This paper considers two issues: the formation of inter-firm relationships, and the choice of governance form. These have been widely investigated in both the strategic management and operations management fields. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, we address why firms enter inter-firm relationships by hypothesizing that managers enter them to pursue three strategic needs, that is: efficiency/effectiveness, knowledge/learning, and global market access. Our first contribution evidences the relationship between the above strategic needs and a number of operational objectives that managers normally pursue in an inter-firm relationship. Second, we hypothesiz…
Product Recalls and Supply Chain Responsiveness
2015
The increase in product recalls which occurred in recent years is mainly due to the globalization of the supply chains, in particular the outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing and distribution. Besides being the main cause of recall, in this paper we argue that outsourcing (domestic and international) and offshoring may also affect the supply chain responsiveness in managing the recall itself. We test a number of hypotheses on this theme empirically on the pharmaceutical sector by using data collected from the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Transnational textile outsourcing: exceptional or standard
2021
The aim of this investigation is to quantitatively analyse the new methods of production and organisation in the textile business. Free flow of funds together with textile hyper-consumption have led to organisational models based on processes of externalisation, outsourcing, export, internationalisation and so on. Because of the transverse nature of the study subject, as well as the opportunities and asymmetries generated in the textile industry, a Delphi analysis is proposed as a way to analyse this new paradigm. A panel of 55 experts were given multidisciplinary questionnaires and their responses were studied, taking into account the degree of affinity (test) of the statements posed in or…
The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers: Knowledge Manage-ment across the Sourcing Life-cycle
2011
Laaksonen, Pekka The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers: Knowledge Manage-ment across the Sourcing Life-cycle Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2011, 42 s. Tietojärjestelmätiede, kandidaatintutkielma Ohjaaja(t): Käkölä, Timo Tässä kandidaatintutkielmassa selvitettiin sitä, miten the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers-mallin käytännöt (practices) ovat liittyneet tietä-myksenhallinnan neljään prosessiin: tiedon luominen, varastointi/noutaminen, jakaminen ja hyödyntäminen. Tutkielma suoritettiin kirjallisuus katsauksena. Tutkimus ongelmaa lähestyttiin taulukoimalla mallin käytännöt matriisiin, jos-sa vaaka-akselilla olivat palvelutuotannon elinkaaren vaiheet ja pysty…
The effect of buyer specific-monitoring procedures on buyer control in dynamic supply chain links
2015
Based on transaction cost analysis (TCA), resource dependency theory (RDT), and supply chain management literature, this study explores the effect of buyer-specific monitoring procedures on buyer control in industrial buyer-seller transactions, particularly in relation to how environmental uncertainty affects the buying firm's ability to exercise control over the supplier firm. The research design is based on primary data from a survey of 168 industrial buyer-seller relationships which map a broad set of dimensions of the economic transactions and structures in these business-to-business relationships. The empirical findings provide support for the hypotheses, and demonstrate that the effec…
Crowdsourcing Fundamentals: Definition and Typology
2015
Crowdsourcing is a problem-solving and task realization model that is being increasingly used. Thanks to the possibility of harnessing the collective intelligence from the Internet; thanks to the crowdsourcing initiatives people can, for example, find a solution to a complex chemical problem, get images tagged, or get a logo designed. Due to its success and usefulness, more and more researchers have focused their interest on this concept. This fact has shown that the concept of crowdsourcing has no clear boundaries, and although over time the concept has been better explained, some authors describe it differently, propose different types of crowdsourcing initiatives, or even use contradicto…
A roadmap towards improving managed security services from a privacy perspective
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Ethics and Information Technology. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-014-9348-3 This paper proposes a roadmap for how privacy leakages from outsourced managed security services using intrusion detection systems can be controlled. The paper first analyses the risk of leaking private or confidential information from signature-based intrusion detection systems. It then discusses how the situation can be improved by developing adequate privacy enforcement methods and privacy leakage metrics in order to control and reduce the leakage of private and confidential information over time. Such metrics should allow fo…
Outsourcing i byggebransjen : en lønnsomhetsanalyse med vekt på CM-modellen
2014
Masteroppgave i industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse IND 590 Universitetet i Agder 2014 Formålet med denne studien har vært å vurdere om det er økonomisk rasjonelt av en totalentreprenør på Sørlandet å drive som en CM-entreprenør. En CM-entreprenør outsourcer alle de utførende aktivitetene som er involvert i et byggeprosjekt til eksterne aktører i markedet. Studien er konsentrert rundt outsourcingsbeslutningen av fagfeltene betong og tømmer, da det vanligvis er disse funksjonene den tradisjonelle totalentreprenøren på Sørlandet har organisert internt. Problemstillingen er belyst gjennom de teoretiske perspektivene transaksjonskostnadsteori og ressursbasert teori. Transaksjonskostnadsteor…
Spēļu elementu(gamification)un kolektīvās inteliģences (crowdsourcing) izmantošana mārketingā, to pielietošanas iespējas Latvijā
2015
Jura Baldunčika maģistra darba „Spēļu elementu (gamification) un kolektīvās inteliģences (crowdsourcing) izmantošana mārketingā, to pielietošanas iespējas Latvijā” mērķis ir izpētīt gamification un crowdsourcing instrumentāriju, un to pielietošanas iespējas Latvijā no infrastruktūras, speciālistu un patērētāju perspektīvām. Darba teorētiskajā daļā autors pētījis un sintezējis gamification un crowdsourcing izmantošanai nepieciešamo zināšanu platformu balstoties gan uz jaunākajiem zinātnieku pētījumiem un zinātnisko literatūru, gan praksē ieviestiem piemēriem. Pētījuma otrajā daļā veikta pētījuma priekšmeta – interneta infrastruktūras un tā lietotāju analīze. Darba pēdējā daļā analizēta šo pi…
The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
Abstract This study investigates the role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also explores the impact of collaborative knowledge creation on the perceived value of social media crowdsourcing in such crises. PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data and test the research model. The results show that sense of community has a significant role in harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and creating collaborative knowledge. The results confirm a significant impact of sense of community, the wisdom of the crowd, and collaborative knowledge creation on the perceived value of social media crowdsourcing in respondin…