..., and outsourcing on reducing local and supply chain GHG emissions. Design/methodology/approach Using ASSET4 and deploying first-differencing fixed-effects panel data models, the study conducts a large-scale empirical examination on the effects of these focal strategic environmental options on GHG emissions...

...Torsten Steinbach; Carl Marcus Wallenburg; Kostas Selviaridis Purpose This research focuses on the role of customer behavior in service outsourcing relationships that are governed by outcome-oriented contracts. The purpose of this paper is to explain how non-collaborative customer behavior impedes...

...-use rights only Project management Outsourcing This research focuses on generic project-oriented roles, hence the terminology related to specific project topics, such as schedules, costs, and portfolios, as well as industry-specific terms lies outside the scope of this paper. We aim...

...Royston Morgan; Des Doran; Stephanie Jean Morgan Purpose There is a view that strong preventative contracts are essential to control supplier opportunism and delivery during an outsourcing implementation. The purpose of this paper is to test the proposition that contractual project environments...

... of the uncertainty exposure in servitized triads and suitable organisational responses. 30 06 2016 12 10 2016 13 01 2017 22 03 2017 24 03 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Outsourcing Case study Servitization...

..., firms can consider transferring some of their logistics activities to/from their customer. The transfer can take two contrasting forms: outsourcing by the company of some logistics activities to its customers or insourcing by the company of some logistics activities from its customers. The purpose...

...John G. Wacker; Chenlung Yang; Chwen Sheu Purpose As outsourcing continues to grow, supplier management becomes critical to the success of manufacturing firms. Transaction cost economics (TCE) suggests that firms should choose supplier governance mechanisms to ensure fulfillment of contractual...

... be contacted at: r.a.f.sumo@tue.nl 31 05 2015 19 11 2015 21 01 2016 27 03 2016 07 04 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Outsourcing Operations improvement Maintenance management...

...Martina Gerbl; Ronan McIvor; Paul Humphreys The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that incorporates both firm- and process-level factors for understanding location distance choice in the business process outsourcing (BPO) decision. The research involved undertaking in-depth...

.... The final section presents the results of the case study, followed by discussions and conclusions. The toy industry provides an appropriate setting for this study, partly because it leads the global outsourcing trends and partly because China is the world’s largest OEM toy manufacturing center (Lyles...

...Donna Marshall; Eamonn Ambrose; Ronan McIvor; Richard Lamming Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the influence of political goals and behaviour on the outsourcing decision process and outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The research used an exploratory...

...-intensity relations consume more of the partners’ attention, time, and resources. Dr Yusoon Kim can be contacted at: yusoon.kim@bus.oregonstate.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Innovation Outsourcing Buyer-supplier relationships New product design Conceptual framework...

...Maike Scherrer-Rathje; Patricia Deflorin; Gopesh Anand Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of organizational context on the relationships between outsourcing and manufacturing flexibility. In doing so, the authors study four types of manufacturing flexibility: product...

...Daniel Nordigården; Jakob Rehme; Staffan Brege; Daniel Chicksand; Helen Walker Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate an underexplored aspect of outsourcing involving a mixed strategy in which parallel production is continued in-house at the same time as outsourcing occurs...

... rarer are buyers: often one per nation. In areas such as defence, highways, health, power stations, airports, docks, transport and advanced software systems, there may often be only one buyer. The public sector is a key buyer of complex procurements, one recent driver being the outsourcing of formerly...

... of this paper is to analyze differences in outsourcing strategies between manufacturing firms from emerging markets and from developed markets. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on statistical analyses of a large data set of manufacturing firms obtained from the International Manufacturing...

...Zoran Perunović; Mads Christoffersen; Robert N. Mefford Purpose A vendor's capabilities are recognized as one of the most important factors for success in outsourcing. However, there is a lack of understanding of how vendors manage their capabilities throughout the outsourcing process. With an aim...

...Rob Dekkers Purpose The theories of transaction‐cost economics, the resource‐based view and the core competencies approach have been used extensively to justify the rationale behind strategic decisions on outsourcing, but their validity has not been investigated yet in comparative empirical...

...Youssef Boulaksil; Jan C. Fransoo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the implications of outsourcing at the operational planning level, i.e. how the operational planning function is complicated owing to the strategic outsourcing decisions that have been made in the past. Design...

...., 2002). Consider for example GE's experience in India. GE has been one of the leading proponents of offshore outsourcing both in the area of manufactured products as well as knowledge‐based services. Its connection to India started at 1902 when it installed India's first hydroelectric plant. Over...