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The service machine as a service operation framework 将服务机作为服务操作的框架
Pub Date : 2011-11-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111185476
P. Lillrank, Minni Särkkä
Purpose – Understanding and depicting service operations is important, as the contractual agreements have become more complex, particularly in offshore outsourcing. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Service Machine as a metaphor and a parsimonious conceptual framework for analyzing outsourced service operations in a Business‐to‐Business‐to‐Consumer context. Conventional machines have frames or platforms that connect various components. The equivalent of a machine in services is a system of contracts linking a client, a service provider, and the end‐users. Clients have the interest to know how, when, where, by whom and with what instructions are their operations being produced. As a result depicting both the service operations and the contractual framework becomes increasingly important.Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of the existing theoretical literature on outsourcing, operations management, contracting and governance, the paper explores a new conceptual model for governing ou...
目的-理解和描述服务操作非常重要,因为合同协议变得越来越复杂,特别是在离岸外包中。本文的目的是介绍服务机器作为一个隐喻和一个简洁的概念框架,用于分析企业对企业对消费者环境中的外包服务操作。传统的机器有连接各种部件的框架或平台。在服务领域,机器的等价物是连接客户、服务提供商和最终用户的合同系统。客户有兴趣知道他们的操作是如何、何时、何地、由谁以及在什么指示下进行的。因此,描述服务业务和合同框架变得越来越重要。设计/方法/途径——通过对现有的关于外包、运营管理、合同和治理的理论文献的回顾,本文探索了一种新的管理外包的概念模型。
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引用次数: 11
Logistics outsourcing and company performance of SMEs 物流外包与中小企业绩效
Pub Date : 2011-06-28 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111147982
Tomi Solakivi, Juuso Töyli, J. Engblom, L. Ojala
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state of and future expectations concerning the usage of the outsourcing of logistics operations in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), and to analyse and quantify the relationships between logistics outsourcing, costs and performance, financial performance, and the company context.Design/methodology/approach – The data were 223 manufacturing and trading SMEs from the Finnish logistics survey combined with detailed financial report‐based data, both referring to the year 2008. Statistical analyses including ANOVA and factor analysis were applied.Findings – Transport activities are excessively outsourced. Most companies report no outsourcing of order processing and invoicing, and half of them have not outsourced logistics IT systems. Outsourcing is expected to grow in all areas with strongest expectations in materials management, value‐added services, and in IT. The logistics costs for companies engaging in the medium level of outsourcing...
目的-本文的目的是探讨中小型企业(sme)使用物流业务外包的现状和未来期望,并分析和量化物流外包、成本和绩效、财务绩效和公司背景之间的关系。设计/方法/方法-数据来自芬兰物流调查的223家制造业和贸易中小企业,结合详细的财务报告数据,均涉及2008年。统计分析包括方差分析和因子分析。调查结果-运输活动被过度外包。大多数公司报告没有外包订单处理和发票,其中一半没有外包物流IT系统。外包预计将在所有领域增长,在材料管理、增值服务和IT领域的预期最强。从事中等水平外包的公司的物流成本…
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引用次数: 51
Configurations of outsourcing firms and organizational performance: A study of outsourcing industry in India 外包企业配置与组织绩效:印度外包产业研究
Pub Date : 2011-06-28 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111147991
K. Sharda, Leena Chatterjee
Purpose – There is an increasing recognition of outsourcing firms as new organizational forms with unique systems and practices. This paper seeks to use a configurational approach to integrate learning from outsourcing literature, organization and management theory, strategic management and strategic human resource management in order to understand similarities and differences between outsourcing firms and their performance. It aims to examine if certain combinations of work designs, strategic orientations, client relations and contexts could lead to better organizational performance within a sample of outsourcing firms.Design/methodology/approach – A combination of descriptive and exploratory research design has been used to collect data from 60 outsourcing firms across India. Using survey and semi‐structured interviews, data have been collected from the top management team and non‐managerial employees in each organization (n=836 respondents). Principal components factor analysis, Ward's minimum variance...
目的-越来越多的人认识到外包公司是一种具有独特系统和实践的新型组织形式。本文试图用配置的方法整合外包文献、组织管理理论、战略管理和战略人力资源管理的学习,以了解外包公司及其绩效之间的异同。它的目的是检查工作设计,战略方向,客户关系和背景的某些组合是否可能导致更好的组织绩效外包公司的样本。设计/方法论/方法-描述性和探索性研究设计的结合已用于收集来自印度60家外包公司的数据。通过调查和半结构化访谈,从每个组织的高层管理团队和非管理员工(n=836名受访者)中收集了数据。主成分因子分析,Ward最小方差…
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引用次数: 23
Measuring value progress in outsourcing organizations 衡量外包组织的价值进展
Pub Date : 2011-06-28 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111147973
T. M. Srithika, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a scale for measuring value progress in outsourcing organizations. The scale is also intended to capture the differences in the nature of progress between different categories of outsourcing organizations.Design/methodology/approach – The procedure for developing measures suggested by Churchill was adopted. The balanced scorecard framework has been used to generate items. Data were collected from 693 employees in 49 outsourcing organizations in India (specifically, those categorized as knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and business process outsourcing (BPO)) and the scale reliability and validity was tested using content validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and co‐efficient alpha scores. Confirmatory fit indices have been used to establish validity and unidimensionality of the measures.Findings – The study statistically establishes a tool to measure progress of outsourcing organizations. The findings reveal that some organ...
目的-本文的目的是开发和验证一个衡量外包组织价值进展的尺度。该量表还旨在捕捉不同类别的外包组织之间在进展性质上的差异。设计/方法/方法-采用了丘吉尔建议的制定措施的程序。平衡计分卡框架已被用于生成项目。数据收集自印度49个外包组织(特别是知识流程外包(KPO)和业务流程外包(BPO))的693名员工,并使用内容效度、探索性和验证性因子分析以及协效alpha分数来测试量表的信度和效度。采用验证性拟合指标来确定测量的有效性和单维性。研究结果-该研究建立了一个统计工具来衡量外包组织的进展。研究结果表明,某些器官……
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引用次数: 8
Mitigation of risks due to service provider behavior in offshore software development: A relationship approach 降低离岸软件开发中服务提供商行为带来的风险:一种关系方法
Pub Date : 2011-06-28 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111148008
Saji K. Mathew
Purpose – Although risks and client‐vendor relationships in IT outsourcing have been studied in prior research, there is a paucity of studies providing insights on the mitigation of client risks through the relationship. This research aims to focus on mitigation of the ex post risks of firms engaged in offshore software development (OSD). Client risks due to service provider behavior are identified first. Further, this work seeks to identify relationship variables that could reduce the impact of determinants of risk on a risk category.Design/methodology/approach – This research followed a multiple case study method aiming to build insights and directions that would facilitate further research. The paper's goal of sampling was to choose cases which were likely to extend the emergent theory pertaining to risks and their mitigation through relationships.Findings – Findings from this study show that shirking, loss of control over information assets, and service provider lock‐in are the three categories of ex ...
目的-尽管在之前的研究中已经研究了IT外包中的风险和客户-供应商关系,但通过这种关系来降低客户风险的研究却很少。本研究的目的是集中在减轻事后风险的公司从事离岸软件开发(OSD)。首先确定由服务提供商行为引起的客户风险。此外,这项工作旨在确定可以减少风险决定因素对风险类别的影响的关系变量。设计/方法论/方法-本研究采用多案例研究方法,旨在建立有助于进一步研究的见解和方向。本文的抽样目标是选择有可能扩展有关风险及其通过关系缓解的紧急理论的案例。研究结果-本研究的结果表明,逃避、对信息资产失去控制和服务提供商锁定是三种类型的问题。
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引用次数: 17
Sustainable strategic sourcing decisions: The logic of appropriateness applied to the Brazilian market 可持续战略采购决策:适当的逻辑适用于巴西市场
Pub Date : 2011-02-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111108444
Joachim Timlon
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the factors that influence strategic sourcing decisions to the Brazilian market based on societal and natural values.Design/methodology/approach – A case study method is used because of its suitability for exploring how a Scandinavian multinational corporation can respond to the social context in the Brazilian market by matching, in competition with other firms, its own values, norms and beliefs to those prevailing in the Brazilian market.Findings – The response to the social context in the Brazilian market and the integration with the group's ethical standards comprise certain appropriate corporate social responsibility practices that result in natural and social benefits for the stakeholders, which in turn creates social advantages.Research limitations/implications – The study is focused on the Brazilian market and would benefit from the availability of data in other emerging country markets that pose potential outsourcing destinations, enab...
目的-本文的目的是识别和分析影响巴西市场基于社会和自然价值的战略采购决策的因素。设计/方法论/方法-使用案例研究方法,因为它适合探索斯堪的纳维亚跨国公司如何通过与其他公司竞争,将自己的价值观、规范和信仰与巴西市场的主流价值观、规范和信仰相匹配,来应对巴西市场的社会背景。调查结果-对巴西市场社会背景的回应以及与集团道德标准的整合,包括某些适当的企业社会责任实践,为利益相关者带来自然和社会效益,从而创造社会优势。研究局限性/影响-该研究主要关注巴西市场,并将受益于其他新兴国家市场的可用性数据,这些市场构成潜在的外包目的地,使…
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引用次数: 17
The implementation of social responsibility in purchasing in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta: A case study 社会责任在香港/珠三角采购中的落实:个案研究
Pub Date : 2011-02-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111108417
Antônio, K. Lau
Purpose – In response to stakeholder concerns for social responsibility in global supply chains, companies have implemented codes of conduct in outsourcing activities. The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically how a multinational buying office implements its social responsibility and the codes in purchasing activities in the Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta (HK/PRD) region.Design/methodology/approach – This paper reports a case study that reviews the experience from three sourcing projects of a multinational buying office in the HK/PRD region. This company has successfully adopted purchasing social responsibility (PSR) practices for years.Findings – The results show that the environment, ethics, health and safety, and human rights are more important than diversity, community, and financial responsibility in PSR practices in the HK/PRD region. The benefits of adopting PSR include reduced operating costs, enhanced brand image and reputation, increased sales and customer loyalty, increased productiv...
为了回应利益相关者对全球供应链中社会责任的关注,公司在外包活动中实施了行为准则。本文的目的是实证检验跨国采购办事处如何在香港和珠江三角洲(HK/PRD)地区的采购活动中履行社会责任和规范。设计/方法/方法-本文报告了一个案例研究,回顾了一个跨国采购办事处在香港/珠三角地区的三个采购项目的经验。这家公司多年来一直成功地采用采购社会责任(PSR)实践。调查结果-结果显示,在香港/珠三角地区,环境、道德、健康和安全以及人权比多样性、社区和财务责任更为重要。采用PSR的好处包括降低运营成本,增强品牌形象和声誉,增加销售和客户忠诚度,提高生产力……
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引用次数: 29
How green is my outsourcer? Measuring sustainability in global IT outsourcing 我的外包商有多环保?衡量全球IT外包的可持续性
Pub Date : 2011-02-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111108426
R. Babin, B. Nicholson
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of sustainability and global IT outsourcing (GITO). GITO is well established as a business practice towards reducing costs and improving performance. Sustainability issues related to carbon footprint and greenhouse gases are increasingly important for all organizations. Responsible and economic energy management is a critical business capability and environmental responsibility in global outsourcing.Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on empirical work undertaken in the UK and North America together with content analysis of public data from leading GITO providers, this paper presents a model for measuring sustainability in outsourcing.Findings – The research findings demonstrate a growing environmental maturity in GITO firms, as measured against external recognized standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the UN Global Compact and the ISO environmental and social responsibility standards.Practical...
目的-本文的目的是检查可持续性和全球IT外包(GITO)的交集。GITO已成为降低成本和提高绩效的商业实践。与碳足迹和温室气体相关的可持续性问题对所有组织都越来越重要。在全球外包中,负责任和经济的能源管理是一项关键的业务能力和环境责任。设计/方法论/方法-借鉴英国和北美开展的实证工作,以及对领先GITO供应商的公共数据进行内容分析,本文提出了一个衡量外包可持续性的模型。研究结果-研究结果表明,与外部公认的标准(如全球报告倡议组织、碳披露项目、联合国全球契约和ISO环境和社会责任标准)相比,GITO公司的环境成熟度越来越高。
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引用次数: 33
What motivates manufacturing SMEs to outsource offshore in China? Comparing the perspectives of SME manufacturers and their suppliers 是什么促使制造业中小企业在中国进行离岸外包?中小企业制造商与供应商的观点比较
Pub Date : 2011-02-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111108435
P. Sinha, M. Akoorie, Q. Ding, Qian Wu
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the motivations for offshore outsourcing encountered by manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and their suppliers in China. The paper explores the motivations and challenges encountered by SMEs choosing to outsource their manufacturing activities and why their suppliers engage with them.Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case study method was utilized. The authors obtained perspectives of SME managers as well as the suppliers for each of the cases, conducting in‐depth interviews in order to obtain comprehensive information about their outsourcing activities. Then, cross‐case analysis was carried out using content analysis techniques to identify key themes for the motivations to undertake offshore outsourcing.Findings – The results showed that the first rationale for offshore outsourcing relates to increasing efficiency and labor cost reduction while holding quality constant. The second rationale is to maintain flexibility in res...
目的-本文的目的是关注中国制造业中小企业(sme)及其供应商离岸外包的动机。本文探讨了中小企业选择外包其制造活动的动机和遇到的挑战,以及为什么他们的供应商与他们合作。设计/方法论/方法-采用定性案例研究方法。作者从每个案例中获得了中小企业经理和供应商的观点,进行了深入的访谈,以获得有关其外包活动的全面信息。然后,使用内容分析技术进行跨案例分析,以确定进行离岸外包的动机的关键主题。调查结果-结果表明,离岸外包的第一个基本原理是在保持质量不变的同时提高效率和降低劳动力成本。第二个理由是要保持灵活性……
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引用次数: 64
Machiavelli, management and outsourcing: still on the learning curve 马基雅维利、管理和外包:仍在学习阶段
Pub Date : 2011-02-22 DOI: 10.1108/17538291111108408
L. Willcocks
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and assess the evolution of client and supplier approaches and capabilities from 1989 to 2010 in relation to outsourcing and delineate four phases which client learning can be observed to pass through over time. It assesses the lessons that outsourcing stakeholders can absorb from this short but rich history.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a detailed review of 20 years of research into 1,600+outsourcing arrangements studied overtime, and carried out by the author with a range of colleagues, covering IT and business process outsourcing and offshoring practices.Findings – The paper finds that learning has been slow and not passed well within organizations or across from the fields of ITO to BPO and offshore outsourcing. Retained capabilities emerge as a key lifebelt for survival. However, the more recent history has seen more moves towards greater collaboration, which make more objectives and innovation possible.Research limitations/impl...
目的-本文的目的是描述和评估1989年至2010年与外包相关的客户和供应商方法和能力的演变,并描述客户学习可以随时间观察到的四个阶段。它评估了外包利益相关者可以从这段短暂而丰富的历史中吸取的教训。设计/方法论/方法-本文基于作者与一系列同事对20年来1,600多个外包安排的详细研究,涵盖了IT和业务流程外包和离岸外包实践。研究发现——本文发现,学习一直很缓慢,在组织内部或从ITO到BPO和离岸外包的各个领域都没有很好地传递。保留的能力成为生存的关键生命线。然而,最近的历史见证了更多的朝着更大合作的举措,这使得更多的目标和创新成为可能。研究局限性/ impl……
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引用次数: 33
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