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The Manufacturing Industry – Coping with Challenges
Dingli, David J. - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2012
The perception of many people who live in the developed economies of Europe and America are often heard saying that the days of manufacturing are numbered in these countries and that China is the new “factory of the world”. This paper demonstrates how far from reality such a broad sweeping...
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Strategic Sourcing of R&D: The Determinants of Success
Brook, Jacques; Plugge, Albert - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2011
The outsourcing of the R&D function is an emerging practice of corporate firms. In their attempt to reduce the … increasing cost of research and technology development, firms are strategically outsourcing the R&D function or repositioning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397067
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Examining the Implications of Organizational Structure Changes from a Transaction Cost Perspective: a Longitudinal Study of an Outsourcing Vendor
Plugge, Albert; Brook, Jacques - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2011
outsourcing arrangement over time. Drawing on the Transaction Cost Economics the objective of our study is to examine how …-post transaction costs. A retrospective view on a case study was investigated from the perspective of a global outsourcing vendor …
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From Fragmented to Integrated IT Service Delivery: Identifying Coordinating Challenges
Plugge, Albert; Brook, Jacques - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2013
their clients as part of an outsourcing arrangement. This paper presents the results from an explorative empirical study …, based on four vendors in the field of IT outsourcing. Our findings are twofold. First, as vendor organisations can be …
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Understanding resistance in IT outsourcing: A service provider perspective
Plugge, Albert; Brook, Jacques W. - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2012
field of IT outsourcing. Our findings are twofold. First, we found that all the providers under study indeed experienced the …
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