Reconceptualizing the Firm in a World of Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Organizational and Geographical Relocation of High-Value Company Functions

By Farok J. Contractor, Vikas Kumar, Sumit K. Kundu, Torben Pedersen. 2010

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Sustainable innovation, business models and economic performance: an overview (2013, background): “) have mastered not only the know-how for costdriven competition (Contractor et al., 2010) but they have also become innovative in traditional and in selected high-tech sectors (Montobbio et al.”
Creating Value through Offshore Outsourcing: An Integrative Framework (2013, unknown): “…device is typical among firms from advanced economies, primarily because it helps client firms reduce productions costs in the short run (Maskell et al., 2007), and has potential to become a strategic device for value co-creation in the long run (Contractor et al., 2010; Liesch et al., 2012).”
R&D Offshoring and the Productivity Growth of European Regions (2012, background): “…and empirical results discussed in section 2 suggesting that there may be an inverted-U relationship between offhsoring and innovation (see Grimpe and Kaiser, 2010; Contractor et al., 2010, among others) due to the increasing difficulties in orchestrating the value chain (Kotabe and Mudambi, 2009).”
The Impact of the home country on internationalization (2018, background): “First, the company can undertake offshore outsourcing to access the capabilities of foreign firms (Contractor et al., 2010), although this is not FDI.”
The challenge for Mondragon: Searching for the cooperative values in times of internationalization (2014, background): “The international scientific literature highlights offshoring and offshored outsourcing as the main internationalization strategies (Contractor et al., 2010).”
REVISITING GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATIVES (2017, background): “While the internationalization of capitalist multinational companies is usually based on aggressive strategies such as offshoring (Contractor et al. 2010), whose substitute nature leads to job losses (Kletzer 2000), the internationalization model of cooperatives is usually based on…”
Global Value Chain Configuration: A Review and Research Agenda (2017, background): “These addiional efforts and difficulties may, at some point, exceed the otential benefits (Contractor et al., 2010; Kumar et al., 144 V. Hernández, T. Pedersen Concentrated global value chain Exploit arbitrage of national differences.”
Offshoring and backshoring: A multiple case study analysis (2017, background): “Several journal special issues (Contractor et al., 2010; Jensen et al., 2013; Kenney et al., 2009; Kotabe and Mudambi, 2009; Lewin and Volberda, 2011; Parkhe, 2007) and review articles (Schmeisser, 2013) have been dedicated to offshoring, identifying various theoretical perspectives that can contrib”