RECONCEPTUALIZING PLURAL SOURCING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Krzeminska, Anna; Hoetker, Glenn; Mellewigt, Thomas
• 署名单位: Leuphana University Luneburg; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Free University of Berlin
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2062
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1614-1627
• 关键词: plural sourcing; concurrent sourcing; make-and-buy; tapered integration; governance choice; Similarity

摘要

Firms often procure the same input via multiple means, e.g., making and buying. Recent papers have yielded rich, but inconsistent, theoretical and empirical insights. Resolving these inconsistencies requires reconceptualizing two aspects of plural sourcing: what and how. We reconceptualize plural sourcing as a set of combined governance modesmake-and-buy, make-and-ally, and buy-and-allywhich differ in their capabilities and limitations. We demonstrate our reconceptualization's potential with propositions predicting the choice of specific plural sourcing modes. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.