Abstract
Being R&D intensive has traditionally been seen as an impediment to outsourcing. This study confirms that empirically this was the case for a set of manufacturing industries in The Netherlands in the early 1990s, but also shows that R&D intensity became a positive predictor for changes in outsourcing levels over the 1990s, suggesting firms in R&D intensive industries have increasingly started to rely on partnership relations with outside suppliers. This confirms the need to move the analysis from scale, opportunism and appropriation concerns to a relational perspective when studying outsourcing in R&D intensive industries.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 571-582 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Research Policy |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2005 |
Keywords
- Manufacturing industry
- Outsourcing
- R&D intensity
- Supply chain strategy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Strategy and Management
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Management of Technology and Innovation