Managers in developed countries are increasingly interested in outsourcing as a potential source of competitiveness and value creation. There has been a growing awareness of the potential of outsourcing to support a range of strategies beyond that of lower cost. This article makes corporate...

Purpose – How des Xilinx Corporation, with worldwide headquarters in San Jose and European headquarters in Dublin, stay on Fortune magazine's top‐ten‐best‐companies‐to‐work‐for list and remain the market leader in the programmable logic segment of the semiconductor industry?...

Purpose – Advising top management how to find the right balance between corporate creativity and efficiency in order to turn innovation into commercial reality. Design/methodology/approach – The author interviewed senior corporate managers and reviewed the literature. Findings –...