TAILIEUCHUNG - Strategic outsourcing investment in high technology industry

In a highly competitive industry, especially high-tech industry, a firm needs to have appropriate outsourcing strategies in order to survive. However, a firm used to have a strategic dilemma between supplier-oriented strategy and production-oriented strategy. Because of increasin complexity in the socio-economic surroundings along with rapidly changing technologies, how to have a suitable outsourcing investment is becoming an important focus for companies. | African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5 12 pp. 4666-4676 18 June 2011 Available online at http AJBM ISSN 1993-8233 2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Strategic outsourcing investment in high technology industry Hsing Hung Chen1 and Xiaoqiang Xing2 1Faculty of Management and Administration Macau University of Science and Technology Macau China. 2College of International Business University of International Business and Economics Beijing China. Accepted 17 September 2010 In a highly competitive industry especially high-tech industry a firm needs to have appropriate outsourcing strategies in order to survive. However a firm used to have a strategic dilemma between supplier-oriented strategy and production-oriented strategy. Because of increasing complexity in the socio-economic surroundings along with rapidly changing technologies how to have a suitable outsourcing investment is becoming an important focus for companies. However there is no such a research in previous literatures. In order to fill the vacancy the paper tries to briefly discuss the mechanisms of strategic outsourcing investment its critical success criteria and then introduce different evaluation models to help in having suitable outsourcing investment. Finally the paper finds that an analytic network process ANP associated with benefits opportunities costs and risks BOCR is optimal to help companies to select the most suitable outsourcing investment projects. Key words Analytic Network Process ANP Benefits Opportunities Costs and Risks BOCR strategic outsourcing investment. INTRODUCTION Over the past several years there is an emphasis on strategic outsourcing that establishes long-term mutually beneficial relationship with fewer but better suppliers. Talluri and Narasimhan 2004 . Strategic outsourcing decisions are generally related with evaluating the potential strategic suppliers that can effectively meet the long-term expectations of companies .

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