... Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Outsourcing Logistics service provider Supply chain relationships Qualitative approach-case study Stakeholders' relationships Manufacturing firms Developed country/Australia Many previous studies confirmed...

...Selçuk Perçin Purpose Unlike previous literature, this study offers a novel integrated fuzzy approach to the field of outsourcing decisions. The purpose of this paper is to use design ranges of evaluation criteria that satisfy the functional requirements (FRs) of decision makers to solve...

...Bella Belerivana Nujen; Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse; Rickard Damm; Hallgeir Gammelsæter Purpose Against the recent trend toward reversed global outsourcing, the purpose of this paper is to provide insights on how the internal process can be handled once the decision on reverse outsourcing has been...

...Mary J. Meixell; George N. Kenyon; Peter Westfall Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance implications associated with production outsourcing. Specifically, the paper analyzes the cost of goods sold for firms who outsource core manufacturing processes, using...

... to an unknown situation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of the MP environment on the MP process before and during PTS. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework describing the MP environment before and during PTS is developed and applied to one case of outsourcing from...

...Min Zhang; Kulwant S. Pawar; Janat Shah; Peeyush Mehta Purpose – Many pharmaceutical companies outsource their research and development and manufacturing operations to value chain partners. Effective evaluation of outsourcees' capabilities and relationship management are often central...

...Adegoke Oke; Henrietta Onwuegbuzie Purpose – The authors aim to develop and test hypotheses that link outsourcing and subcontracting-in activities of small high-tech firms to their radical innovativeness. In addition, they seek to investigate how a firm's strategy moderates the associations...

...Anish Sachdeva; Vishal Sharma; Dr Arvind Bhardwaj; Raman Kumar; Harwinder Singh; J.S. Dureja Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make out a complete solution to logistic outsourcing problem in a medium‐scale organization by using consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR...

... collaborative relationships between system integrators and suppliers (Howard and Squire, 2007). This seemingly contradictory situation can be explained by the fact that the reasons underpinning a firm's decision to modularize their products may not be the same as their reasons to outsource parts...

...Ying Liao; Kun Liao; Robert Hutchinson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework for prototyping outsourcing. Design/methodology/approach This study provides an up‐to‐date literature review and an in‐depth case study. Findings This study identifies three...

...Nicholas Beaumont; Suku Bhaskaran; Helen Jenkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss a distribution outsourcing alliance between a small‐to‐medium scale food processor and a national distributor of frozen and chilled food products. The paper discusses the influence of market...

... management decisions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Outsourcing Risk management Risk analysis Offshore investments The risks associated with offshoring introduce many of the same complexities to operational processes as outsourcing domestically does. Figure 2 shows...

... it is a question of outsourcing marginal activities, for example, management costs and dynamic transaction benefits seem to be of most significance. On the other hand, transaction costs and dynamic management benefits have a major role in the definition of boundary choices related to core activities. Research...

... to the apparel industry in the USA. The beginning of 2005 marked the end of a 30‐year old quota on the apparel market in the USA. This has led many western apparel manufacturers to outsource their production to low‐labor cost countries. This in‐turn has led to increased customer lead‐times. This paper aims...

...Chien‐Ta Bruce Ho; S.C. Lenny Koh; Ninghua Song; Ken Platts; David Bance Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework of total acquisition cost of overseas outsourcing/sourcing in manufacturing industry. This framework contains categorized cost items that may occur during...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Corporate strategy Manufacturing industries Outsourcing Dr Theo Williamson Award: Named after Dr Theo Williamson, who died in May 1992. He was director of RD at Mollins plc and subsequently became Group Director at Rank Xerox. He...

...Robert K. Perrons; Ken Platts Purpose To determine whether or not clockspeed is an important variable in outsourcing strategies throughout the development of radical innovations. Design/methodology/approach An internet‐based survey of manufacturing firms from all over the world. Findings...

...Sin Hoon Hum Third party logistics services have a significant role to play in the current trend of outsourcing of the logistics function. From the third party logistics service provider’s perspective, the provider must seek to manage itself strategically in order to win an increasing share...