Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In some, partners are used primarily to lower development costs and/or...

Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs,...

Der vorliegende Artikel leistet einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung einer umfassendenTheorie der Wirkungen eines Outsourcings von Personalfunktionen. Aufbauend auf den in der Literatur dominierenden Ansätzen zur Behandlung von Outsourcing-Fragestellungen wie den kostenrechnerischen Verfahren, dem...