主题：ATTAINING PERFORMANCE IN THE FACE OF CAPABILITY DEFFICIENCY
时间：2016年5月17日 13:00~14:30
地点：博识楼113
主讲人：Howard Xiaohua Lin
摘要：
Empirical findings on the performance effect of outsourcing have been inconclusive. In this study, we focused on a factor that can influence the outsourcing-performance linkage – decentralized decision making. We argued that outsourcing will improve performance, but decentralization could be detrimental to performance, especially for firms that lack management capability. Using survey data collected from 769 private firms in Russia, we found that decentralized decision-making over outsourcing promotes more supply chain outsourcing, but also leads to poorer operational performance and interacts with outsourcing negatively in affecting operational performance. We also considered a set of contextual factors that could exert influence on a firm’s choice of a decentralized decision-making approach, some of which are of conventional nature (e.g., firm size and demand uncertainty) and others may be peculiar to our research context – Russia, one of the important emerging markets which have lately witnessed significant growth of outsourcing activities as market liberalization tends to reduce vertical integration and thus increase levels of outsourcing. By and large, these findings confirm the resource-based view of the firm and the dynamic capabilities theory, and shed fresh lights into the contested fields of outsourcing and organizational decision making structure.
主讲人简历：
Professor of International Business & Entrepreneurship
Director of Canada-China Institute for Business & Development
Ted Rogers School of Management
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street, Toronto ON M5B2K3, Canada
hlin@ryerson.ca
Chair, Academy of International Business Canada Chapter www.aib.msu.edu
Vice President, Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship www.ccsbe.ca
时间：2016年5月17日 13:00~14:30
地点：博识楼113
主讲人：Howard Xiaohua Lin
摘要：
Empirical findings on the performance effect of outsourcing have been inconclusive. In this study, we focused on a factor that can influence the outsourcing-performance linkage – decentralized decision making. We argued that outsourcing will improve performance, but decentralization could be detrimental to performance, especially for firms that lack management capability. Using survey data collected from 769 private firms in Russia, we found that decentralized decision-making over outsourcing promotes more supply chain outsourcing, but also leads to poorer operational performance and interacts with outsourcing negatively in affecting operational performance. We also considered a set of contextual factors that could exert influence on a firm’s choice of a decentralized decision-making approach, some of which are of conventional nature (e.g., firm size and demand uncertainty) and others may be peculiar to our research context – Russia, one of the important emerging markets which have lately witnessed significant growth of outsourcing activities as market liberalization tends to reduce vertical integration and thus increase levels of outsourcing. By and large, these findings confirm the resource-based view of the firm and the dynamic capabilities theory, and shed fresh lights into the contested fields of outsourcing and organizational decision making structure.
主讲人简历：
Professor of International Business & Entrepreneurship
Director of Canada-China Institute for Business & Development
Ted Rogers School of Management
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street, Toronto ON M5B2K3, Canada
hlin@ryerson.ca
Chair, Academy of International Business Canada Chapter www.aib.msu.edu
Vice President, Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship www.ccsbe.ca