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Kotabe, Masaaki, Murray, Janet Y. and Mol, Michael J. (2008) Global sourcing strategy and performance: A “fit” versus “balance” perspective. In: International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First 50 Years and Beyond. Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol.14 . Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 259-277. ISBN 978-0-7623-1470-6
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00008-9
Abstract
Increased global sourcing of manufacturing and service activities has been a prominent part of the restructuring of firms’ supply chains in the 1990s and beyond. Academics and consultancy firms have largely supported the view of global sourcing as one of the key drivers of superior performance. As we are now increasingly discovering, the drawbacks of offshore outsourcing – or, put differently, the advantages of vertical integration – have been underestimated or even neglected. In this chapter, we first discuss the need to balance sourcing levels and then how global sourcing levels must achieve a strategic fit with the environment. Finally, we synthesize these balance and fit perspectives to suggest how, over time, changes in the fit alter the required balance in global sourcing. From this synthesis, we develop a number of future research questions related to important conceptual perspectives on sourcing. For managers we provide indications of how they can achieve a balance and a fit of their sourcing strategies.
| Item Type: | Book Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Marketing & Strategic Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Series Name: | Research in Global Strategic Management |
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Place of Publication: | Bingley, UK |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7623-1470-6 |
| ISSN: | 1064-4857 |
| Book Title: | International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First 50 Years and Beyond |
| Editor: | Boddewyn, J.J. |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Volume: | Vol.14 |
| Number of Pages: | 19 |
| Page Range: | pp. 259-277 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00008-9 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44105 |
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