The decision to make or buy a critical technology: semiconductors at Ericsson, 1980--2010

Henrik Glimstedt, Donald Bratt and Magnus P. Karlsson

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010, vol. 19, issue 2, 431-464

Abstract: This article considers the decisions to outsource and re-integrate the development of critical and innovative technologies. It documents a historical sequence of choices made by strategists within a high-tech company, Ericsson. The evidence discussed indicates that a broad range of different factors were taken into consideration and that the influential people made a point of running different kinds approaches to outsourcing in parallel. Re-integration occurred when the structures put in place by collaborating firms did not sustain innovation. Copyright 2010 The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

Date: 2010
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