Innovation: Step-Change in Outsourcing: Towards Collaborative Innovation

Edgar Whitley and Leslie P. Willcocks

Chapter 3 in The New IT Outsourcing Landscape, 2012, pp 129-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides insights into how companies that are relatively mature in their sourcing capabilities are using outsourcing to achieve innovation. Our research finds that this can be achieved through collaborative practices that have distinctive attributes, and a process we call collaborative innovation.

Keywords: Business Process; Operational Innovation; Senior Executive; Collaborative Practice; Innovation Plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137012296_4

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