Does Being R&D Intensive Still Discourage Outsourcing? Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing

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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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftResearch Policy
Vol/bind14
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)571-582
ISSN0048-7333
DOI
StatusUdgivet - maj 2005
Udgivet eksterntJa

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