Naslov
Outsourcing of R&D versus operational outsourcing and its effects on flexibility and time to market

Autori
Prester, J ; Palčič, I.

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), ostalo

Izvornik
Proceedings of 24th EurOMA Conference, Edinburgh 01-06.07.2017 / Nigel Caldwell - Edinburgh, 2017, 1-10

Skup
24th EurOMA Conference, Inspiring Operations Management

Mjesto i datum
Edinburgh, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 01.06.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Outsourcing, R&D, Manufacturing

Sažetak
In this work strategic and operational outsourcing is analysed in terms of three theoretical lens, dominantly used for explaining outsourcing phenomena and its impact on volume flexibility and time to market. Theoretical lenses are Resource based view, Transaction cost theory and Contingency theory. It is hypothesized that strategic outsourcing is performed due to lack of skills in accordance with Resource based view. That is, if the company does not possess necessary knowledge it is better to outsource. Indeed our results confirm this hypothesis. Operational outsourcing (outsourcing of manufacturing and assembly) would according to Transaction cost theory be performed if it is less costly to outsource and indeed our OLS regression analysis shows positive signs. That is, operational outsourcing raises Return on sales but the coefficients are not significant. Non significance of operational outsourcing is attributed to the fact that overall capacity utilisation in the two researched countries (Croatia and Slovenia) is still low. Contingency theory lens was introduced through control variables (batch size, complexity of the product, capacity utilisation and size of the company in terms of number of employees) and if those situational factors would become significant in the analysis the contingency view would be more appropriate. However, the analysis did not show that these contingency factors affected outsourcing.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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