Mol, Michael J.. (2005) Does being R&D intensive still discourage outsourcing? : evidence from Dutch manufacturing. Research Policy, Vol.34 (No.4). pp. 571-582. ISSN 0048-7333

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Contracting out, Research and development projects, Manufacturing industries -- Netherlands
Journal or Publication Title:	Research Policy
Publisher:	Elsevier BV
ISSN:	0048-7333
Date:	May 2005
Volume:	Vol.34
Number:	No.4
Page Range:	pp. 571-582
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.respol.2005.03.007
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/4411

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