Arbeitspapier
Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firms Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy
Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firms decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firms governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity of the firm to introduce new products and processes. Using microeconomic data on a repeated cross-section of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1998-2003, we develop a two-stage approach: first, we estimate the determinants of the firms organizational governance (production outsourcing); second, we incorporate a measure of governance misalignment into a technological performance relation. We find (i) that firms not aligned with the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly characterized by non-linear effects that reverse the latter correlation for high values of governance misfit.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 58.2007
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Organization of Production
Contracting Out; Joint Ventures; Technology Licensing
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- Thema
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Production Outsourcing
Organizational Governance
Misalignment
Technological Performance
Non-Linearity
Outsourcing
Technischer Fortschritt
Innovation
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Italien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Antonietti, Roberto
Cainelli, Giulio
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- (wo)
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Milano
- (wann)
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Antonietti, Roberto
- Cainelli, Giulio
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Entstanden
- 2007
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