作者：Baumann, Oliver; Becker, Markus C.; Horrmann, Isabel
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark
摘要：When outsourcing design tasks, firms want their suppliers to be both efficient and adaptive. Whereas efficiency is necessary to reap economic gains from outsourcing, adaptation is required to deal with interdependencies as the design evolves. Achieving both objectives simultaneously, however, is difficult because procurement contracts require a trade-off between providing incentives for efficiency and facilitating adaptation. In the presence of formal contracts that provide strong incentives f...
作者：Keum, Dongil D.
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This study examines how constraining a firm's ability to adjust resources affects innovation and underscores a firm's competitive position as a critical contingency to the competing demands for flexibility and efficiency. In response to losing competitiveness, lagging firms must release obsolete resources and increase experimentation with new resources. Limiting the pace and efficiency at which they can do so impedes their ability to innovate and challenge leading firms. I explore these ideas ...
