Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2009
Abstract
Common sense would say, if you are going to outsource innovation, find the most competent supplier and acquire the most codified technology. This research hypothesizes a more counter-intuitive approach by empirically measuring how a firm's outsourcing strategy affects its Absorptive Capacity, which serves here as a proxy for firm sustainability. It is proposed that a complementary buyer-supplier relationship will have a significant positive effect on a firm's absorptive capacity, thereby enhancing its long-term effectiveness, as well as its short-term efficiency. On the other hand, the more competent the supplier relative to the buyer, the less knowledge the outsourcing buyer will assimilate to be able to transform and exploit in the future.
Keywords
strategic planning, strategic outsourcing, outsourcing innovation, absorptive capacity, firm sustainability
Rights
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Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Gibbon, Beth Fitz, "The Effects of Strategic Outsourcing Management On Absorptive Capacity: A Practioner-Scholar Perspective" (2009). Student Scholarship. 445.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/445