Outsourcing Innovation: An Overview of the Problems and Possible Solutions

摘要：

Outsourcing has emerged as one of the most important strategies to achieve innovation. Rather than doing everything by oneself, an organization can hire experts and specialists, and get the job done more efficiently and effectively. By outsourcing, the partners resources when combined with internal capabilities can result in tremendous benefits. Yet, as every strategy has some disadvantages, so does outsourcing, which if not dealt with properly can be dangerous in the long run. The aim of this paper is to highlight the major problems in outsourcing for innovation, their reasons, and recommend possible solutions.

关键词： Outsourcing Innovation Trade secrets Internal capabilities

作者: Raja Irfan Sabi Hu Shuhua

作者单位: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第二届产品创新管理国际会议暨第三届价值工程国际会议(The 2nd International Conference on Product Innovation Management & The 3rd International Conference on Value Engineering)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 319-323

在线出版日期: 2007-04-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）