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The General Profile of the Outsourcing Firm: Evidence for a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna

Year: 2009

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The paper aims at identifying the profile of the outsourcing firm as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing variables are formulated and then tested with respect to a representative cross-sectional sample of firms of a local manufacturing system in Emilia Romagna (Reggio Emilia). The main result of the paper is that outsourcing decisions are affected by the particular organizational and industrial relations patterns of the context firms operate in, and that the latter affects the interpretative power of theoretical explanations of outsourcing.

Source: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

DOI: 10.4337/9781848446120.00017

Authors: Massimiliano Mazzanti, Sandro Montresor, Paolo Pini

Institutions: University of Ferrara, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Centre d'économie et de sociologie appliquées à l'agriculture et aux espaces ruraux, University of Bologna

Language: English

Topic: Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Subfield: Management Information Systems

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3124470665

FWCI: 3.624

Cites: 61

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10