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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm's Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy
Autores: | Antonietti,   Roberto; Cainelli,   Giulio.
Data: | 2007-06-27
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Production Outsourcing; Organizational Governance; Misalignment; Technological Performance; Non-Linearity; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; L23; L24; L25; O31.
Resumo: | Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm’s decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm’s governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity of the firm to introduce new products and processes. Using microeconomic data on a repeated cross-section of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1998-2003, we develop a two-stage approach: first, we estimate the determinants of the firm’s organizational governance (production outsourcing); second, we incorporate a measure of governance misalignment into a technological performance relation. We find (i) that firms not aligned with the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly characterized by non-linear effects that reverse the latter correlation for high values of governance misfit. .
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

26581

http://purl.umn.edu/9553

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)&gt;Knowledge, Technology, Human Capital Working Papers

KTHC Nota di Lavoro 57.2007

Formato:

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