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Global Sourcing - An Analysis of the Implications for Organization Design
von: Gerhard Trautmann
Gabler Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9783834981745 , 132 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen
Preis: 42,25 EUR
Foreword
7
Acknowledgments
9
Table of Contents
11
List of Figures
13
List of Tables
14
List of Abbreviations
15
I. Introduction
16
II. Organizational Design Implications of Global Sourcing: A Multiple Case Study Analysis on the application of Control Mechanisms
25
1. Introduction
26
2. Conceptual background
28
2.1. Organizational design implications of global sourcing
28
2.2. International strategy typologies and control mechanisms
30
3. Research methodology
36
3.1. Theoretical sampling
37
3.2. Data collection
38
3.3. Research process
40
4. Data analysis
41
4.1. International strategy typologies
41
4.2. Category 1: Personal centralized control
44
4.3. Category 2: Bureaucratic formalized control
46
4.4. Category 3: Output control
47
4.5. Category 4: Control by socialization and networks
49
5. Discussion
51
5.1. Global sourcing typologies
51
5.2. Control mechanisms
52
5.3. Towards an information processing model for global sourcing
57
6. Limitations and suggestions for further research
58
III. Implementing Global Sourcing Through Purchasing Portfolio Management
60
1. Introduction
61
2. Conceptual background
64
2.1. Global purchasing synergy
64
2.2. Purchasing portfolio management
65
3. A purchasing portfolio approach for global sourcing
67
3.1. Step 1: Analysis of strategic importance
68
3.2. Step 2: Analysis of synergy potential
69
4. Research methodology
77
4.1. The case company
77
4.2. Data collection
79
5. Application of the purchasing portfolio model
81
5.1. Measurement and use
82
5.2. Classification of categories
82
6. Summary and Conclusions
88
6.1. Limitations
89
6.2. Suggestions for further research
90
6.3. Managerial Implications
91
IV. Elaborating the Information Processing Perspective in the Global Sourcing Context
93
1. Introduction
94
2. Conceptual background
96
2.1. Global sourcing organization
96
2.2. An information processing perspective
101
3. Research methodology
103
3.1 Research approach
103
3.2. Case selection
104
3.3. Data collection
106
3.4. Analysis process
107
4. Data analysis
109
4.1. Category characteristics and motives for global sourcing
109
4.2. Application of integration mechanisms for global sourcing
112
5. Theoretical explanations and discussion
115
5.1. Theoretical interpretation of case evidence
116
5.2. An information processing model in the global sourcing context
123
5.3. Managerial implications
126
6. Conclusion
126
Bibliography
128
Appendix
146
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