Offshoring and firm innovation: The moderating role of top management team attributes
This study attempts to increase the understanding of how offshoring influences the introduction of new products and services. Focusing on the offshoring of those business functions that provide direct knowledge inputs for innovation (i.e., production, R&D, and engineering), we propose that offsh...
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Published in | Strategic management journal Vol. 33; no. 13; pp. 1480 - 1498 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.12.2012
John Wiley & Sons Wiley Periodicals Inc |
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Summary: | This study attempts to increase the understanding of how offshoring influences the introduction of new products and services. Focusing on the offshoring of those business functions that provide direct knowledge inputs for innovation (i.e., production, R&D, and engineering), we propose that offshoring has an inverted U-shaped influence on firm innovativeness. Additionally, we provide an upper echelon contingency perspective by considering the moderating role of two top management team (TMT) attributes (i.e., informational diversity and shared vision). Using a cross-industry sample with lagged data, we find that offshoring has an inverted U-shaped influence on firm innovativeness and that this relationship is steeper in firms with high TMT informational diversity and in firms with low TMT shared vision. |
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Bibliography: | ark:/67375/WNG-7WF11LTC-0 istex:B22808699397FF53EFCEB8F599D0390B5B2D8B46 ArticleID:SMJ1983 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0143-2095 1097-0266 |
DOI: | 10.1002/smj.1983 |