Outsourcing agrochemical services: economic or strategic logic?

Ana Redondo-Cano () and M. Canet-Giner ()

Service Business, 2010, vol. 4, issue 3, 237-252

Abstract: Although the different perspectives of outsourcing—strategic versus economic—are taken into account in this research, our main objective is not to analyze the main reasons underlying this logic or to explain the decision behind outsourcing different activities. Instead, we aim to carry out a thorough analysis of the relationship between the characteristics of different service activities in terms of complexity, from a development point of view and the amount of knowledge firms’ gain from it and the theoretical approach underlying the outsourcing process. In this article, we test this proposal by analyzing the decisions to outsource services in R&D activities in the agrochemical industry. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2010

Keywords: Outsourcing; R&D activities; Agrochemical services industry; Strategic approach; Economic logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s11628-009-0089-z

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