Han, Chaodong; Porterfield, Tobin; Li, Xiaolin - In: International Journal of Production Economics 138 (2012) 1, pp. 159-169
competition may be driving firm contract manufacturing decisions. However, there is little empirical research regarding specific … drivers of contract manufacturing, particularly the effect of supplier industry competition on the use of contract … Census. Regression results show that contract manufacturing is positively associated with supplier industry competition and …