Make-or-Buy Decisions in Patent Related Services

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Among the most prominent theoretical frameworks dealing with the economic underlyings of firms’ make-or-buy decisions are Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the Resourced Based View (RBV). Relying on panel data covering 107 European firms over eight years I test predictions from both TCE and RBV with regard to the outsourcing of patent related services simultaneously. Modelling the share of outsourced patent applications in a Negative Binomial Panel Regression Model I find joint explanatory power of both approaches. My findings support previous literature arguing for an integration of TCE and RBV to a comprehensive theoretical framework of firms make-or-buy decisions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 2006-16

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management ; Contracting Out; Joint Ventures; Technology Licensing ; Firm Organization and Market Structure
• Subject: outsourcing ; patent attorney ; make-or-buy ; negative binomial panel regression

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wagner, Stefan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft
• (where): München
• (when): 2006

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.1264
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/104471
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-1264-1
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET