caa a22 4500 445862912 CHVBK 20180317145448.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10997-009-9099-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10997-009-9099-4 Strange Roger Department of Management, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK aut The outsourcing of primary activities: theoretical analysis and propositions [Elektronische Daten] [Roger Strange] There is a considerable literature comparing the virtues of markets and hierarchies as alternative governance structures for economic transactions. But governance decisions are not simple dichotomous choices, and there has been increasing recent interest in the ‘swollen middle' of hybrid organisational forms that combine market and hierarchical elements. One such hybrid is outsourcing, which has become a topic of considerable contemporary interest both in business circles and within the academic literature. The main contribution of this paper has been to combine the insights of resource dependency theory, the resource-based view of the firm, and transaction cost economics to provide both an explanation for the outsourcing of primary activities and a set of testable propositions about firms' propensities of outsource. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2009 Externalization nationallicence Outsourcing nationallicence Resource dependency theory nationallicence Resource-based view nationallicence Transaction cost economics nationallicence Journal of Management & Governance Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/2(2011-05-01), 249-269 1385-3457 15:2<249 2011 15 10997 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-009-9099-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-009-9099-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Strange Roger Department of Management, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Management & Governance Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/2(2011-05-01), 249-269 1385-3457 15:2<249 2011 15 10997 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer