Outsourcing in the Innovation Process: Locational and Strategic Determinants
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چکیده
There is now substantial evidence that locational and agglomeration influences can have a significant positive effect on innovation performance. Networking and boundary-spanning activities are also increasingly recognised as important contributors to innovation success. This paper attempts to discover whether these factors are linked: in particular, is there any link between plant location, agglomeration effects and the extent of outsourcing in the innovation process? Using data for a large sample of UK and German manufacturing plants we find that organisational and strategic factors play a much greater and more consistent role in shaping the level of outsourcing in the innovation process than locational influences. Strategic approaches to outsourcing may also have benefits in terms of the potential for plants to obtain economies of scope in the management or governance of outsourcing in the innovation process.
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