Innovation Offshoring From Cost to Growth: Analysis of Innovation Offshoring Strategies with Evidence from European Sponsors and Asian Contract Researchers /

• Main Author: Plankenhorn, Simon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2009.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Innovation/Technology Management.

Over the past years, companies have increasingly specialized and contracted activities to external partners in low-wage countries. While these offshoring contracts are considered to be quite successful in corporate reality, managers are primarily offshoring to realize factor cost advantages and ther...

Table of Contents:

• Offshoring theory
• Growth theory
• Research methodology
• European sponsor survey
• Asian contract researcher cases
• Discussion and conclusion.