Global offshoring portfolio diversity and performance implications

Research Notes and Commentaries Alliance Portfolio Diversity and Firm Performance

In this paper, we offer a comprehensive alliance portfolio diversity construct that includes partner, functional, and governance diversity. Grounding our work primarily with the resourceand dynamic capabilities-based views, we argue that increased diversity in partners’ industry, organizational, and national background will incur added complexity and coordination costs but will provide broadene...

Global Multisourcing Strategy: The Emergence of a Supplier Portfolio in Services Offshoring

In today’s global services outsourcing arena, increasing numbers of companies adopt “multisourcing,” that is, they select and combine information technology (IT) and business services from multiple providers. The literature on IT outsourcing and supply chain management has identified critical tradeoffs involved in increasing the number of suppliers and has strongly recommended focusing on a han...

The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring

Pharmaceutical portfolio management: global disease burden and corporate performance metrics.

BACKGROUND Biopharmaceutical companies face multiple external pressures. Shareholders demand a profitable company while governments, nongovernmental third parties, and the public at large expect a commitment to improving health in developed and, in particular, emerging economies. Current industry commercial models are inadequate for assessing opportunities in emerging economies where disease an...

Offshoring and the global distribution of work: Implications for task interdependence theory and practice

Received: 19 January 2007 Revised: 15 January 2008 Accepted: 28 January 2008 Online publication date: 30 October 2008 Abstract A recent Offshoring Research Network (ORN) global survey of offshoring shows that since 2004 management concerns about operational issues on achieving the benefits of offshoring have increased significantly. In this paper we examine inter-task interdependence, a key ope...