mechanisms that establish this influence, and examine alternative ways in knowledge, transaction costs, and property rights …

Outsourcing knowledge and innovation activities offer cost savings and superior performance, but can also put a firm … decisions on knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). KPO is a make-or-ally decision, as firms seek a governance structure that will …’s unique resources and capabilities at risk. Characterizations of outsourcing as a make-or-buy decision do not fit well with …

This article analyzes outsourcing from a knowledge-based perspective. We investigate how knowledge as an organizational … resource and the capabilities to manage this knowledge affect the benefits of outsourcing. Our results indicate that the nature … of the knowledge of the outsourced activity affects the success of outsourcing. We also analyze the way in which …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

Acknowledging efficiency motives, firms have increasingly turned to outsourcing in an effort to capture cost savings …. Transaction cost theory (TCT) has been the dominant means of explaining outsourcing as an economizing approach whereby cost … to strategic outsourcing …

and reach beyond the boundaries of the firm. Accordingly, technology transfer from providers of knowledge intensive … literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … strategic goals. Our stylized theoretical model combines a knowledge production function framework and transaction cost …