Hierarchies, Relational Contracts and New Forms of Outsourcing

Topics:
Sales Force Design,
Strategic Management Tools
Tags:
Business Operations,
Hierarchy,
It Operations,
Outsourcing,
Outsourcing & Subcontracting
Source:
International Centre for Economic Research

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Overview: There is evidence that an increasing part of outsourcing activities mix hierarchies with market forms of governance. The key argument of this paper is that firms have established governance structures based on markets, hierarchies and self-enforcing relational contracts so that they are able to keep a substantial amount of control despite of sourcing out labour. Furthermore, the paper argues that such hierarchical forms of outsourcing produce dependency.

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Format: PDF | Size: 77KB | Date: Sep 2005 | Pages: 27

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