Offshoring and access to location-specific advantages - the impact of governance mode and function

Alona Mykhaylenko; Agnes Motika; Brian Vejrum Wæhrens; Dmitrij Slepniov

Offshoring and access to location-specific advantages - the impact of governance mode and function

Alona Mykhaylenko, Agnes Motika, Brian Vejrum Wæhrens, Dmitrij Slepniov

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Abstract

Most of the existing literature aimed at predicting offshoring success and performance implications does not provide consistent performance results. We suggest that this is due to the existence of a “missing link” between of firms’ offshoring strategies and performance. In this paper, we identify how access to particular offshoring advantages may provide this link. The results of a quantitative survey of more than 1000 Scandinavian firms show that certain offshoring factors (governance mode and type of offshored function) indeed impact the access a company acquires to certain offshoring advantages, which may explain the unpredictability of previous performance outcomes.

Original language	English
Publication date	2014
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	21st International EurOMA Conference on Operations Management in an Innovation Economy: Operations Management in an Innovation Economy - University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Duration: 20 Jun 2014 → 25 Jun 2014 Conference number: 21

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Conference	21st International EurOMA Conference on Operations Management in an Innovation Economy
Number	21
Location	University of Palermo
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Palermo
Period	20/06/2014 → 25/06/2014

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Offshored function, Governance mode, Survey

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Offshoring and access to location-specific advantages - the impact of governance mode and function. / Mykhaylenko, Alona; Motika, Agnes; Wæhrens, Brian Vejrum et al.
2014. Abstract from 21st International EurOMA Conference on Operations Management in an Innovation Economy, Palermo, Italy.

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