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Outsourcing is one of the main origins of firm's shrinkage. Outsourcing strategy can be defined as the purchase of a … consequences of outsourcing ? Transaction Cost Theory (TCT) and Resource Based View (RBV) literature are the main theories … mobilized to understand outsourcing strategy. We present the case study of a French company that outsourcized most of its …
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Outsourcing is one of the organizational practices that have increased in popularity over the past decade, even in the … outsourcing context and contingency factors that underlie them. For that purpose, we carried out an exploratory case study upon … three Moroccan, publicly owned, offices that are involved since 2000 in a large outsourcing plan. The results indicate that …
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The financialisation of strategies, as mentioned in the introduction, may be correlated with the dominant link between investment and funding. The principle of selection no longer seems to focus essentially on investment funding methods, but on investments themselves, according to a financial...
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The plane production constraints, and more particularly an international multisite constraints, raise a strong question of productive and cognitive coordination of a complex technical product. This question treates the coordination, the design and the realization of the subsets and the...
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This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....
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This article deals with the question of the functioning and impact of mechanisms of coordination in the international organization of the R&D activity. It is based on surveys carried out into seven European and American MNCs in three sectors. The present movement of decentralization of R&D...
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This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816023
Our contribution aims to develop some theoretical constructs about network determinants of multinational corporations and small partners strategic alliances instability. In the case of multinational constellation networks, instability may be a strong strategic tool to maximize global network...
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Our paper aims to discuss the relevance of the Uppsala model of firms' internationalization in the current context of globalization. After analyzing the "stages" construction of the U model, we present an overview of main results of empirical studies testing U model hypothesis'. Thus, the...
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Our work aims to examine the relationship between the instability management of asymmetric strategic alliances by a multinational hub firm, and network performance and dynamics. An integrated framework is proposed to appreciate network performance. It includes issues determinants and process...
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