Outsourcing and the variability of corporate performance

Wenbin Yang and Yahao Dong

Applied Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 31, issue 6, 545-549

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on the variability of corporate performance, based on manually collected outsourcing data of Chinese companies from 2012 to 2020. The results show that outsourcing significantly reduces the variability of corporate performance, and the negative correlation between outsourcing and the variability of corporate performance is more significant in companies with high quality of information disclosure, low degree of asset specificity, and low production efficiency. It shows that outsourcing is an effective management decision to disperse corporate risks.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2140105

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