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Offshoring and outsourcing of core corporate activities: The global relocation of pharmaceutical industry clinical trials.

机译：公司核心业务的离岸外包和外包：制药行业临床试验的全球迁移。

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This dissertation examines the offshoring and outsourcing of core activities in the pharmaceutical industry. Using primary and secondary data sources, the dissertation adopts a multi-level approach to examine four research questions related to the sourcing strategies of core activities such as clinical trials. Specifically, I look at operational and strategic factors that influence the decision to relocate core activities both organizationally (in-house versus external vendors) and geographically (activities conducted in home nation versus trials in foreign countries). Drawing on Dunning's framework, the dissertation next examines the role of four motives (resource, market, efficiency and strategic asset seeking) in the offshoring decisions while distinguishing between offshore outsourcing and offshoring to foreign affiliates. Using multiple case studies, the third study further investigates the evolution of firms sourcing strategies from conducting core activities in-house to increasingly outsourcing and offshoring them. The final study in the dissertation examines the impact of offshoring and outsourcing on the performance of core activities.;Data for this dissertation comes from multiple sources: Primary data from in-depth structured interviews and online survey of vice presidents of clinical affairs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, as well as secondary data from Medidata, Orbis, and World Development Indicators.;The dissertation offers evidence that firms tend to use different sourcing strategies for different motives. Specifically, offshoring to foreign affiliates is primarily driven by strategic factors and firms tend to prefer this strategy for strategic asset seeking purposes. Offshore outsourcing on the other hand is motivated by resource and efficiency seeking behavior and the important determinants for this strategy are mainly operational. The third type of sourcing strategy is domestic outsourcing and firms are driven by both strategic as well as operational determinants for this strategy. The qualitative study on strategy evolution points towards a five stage process which begins with in-house sourcing followed by domestic outsourcing, foreign affiliates, offshore outsourcing and finally backsourcing of core activities. Evidence from the dissertation suggests that outsourcing has a positive impact on performance when compared to in-house while offshoring has a negative impact compared to domestic sourcing.
机译：本文研究了制药业核心业务的离岸外包和外包。本文利用一级和二级数据源，采用多层次的方法研究与临床试验等核心活动的采购策略有关的四个研究问题。具体来说，我研究了在组织（内部供应商与外部供应商）和地理位置（母国进行的活动与外国进行的试验）中都影响到重新安排核心活动的决策的运营和战略因素。本文基于邓宁的框架，接下来研究了四种动机（资源，市场，效率和战略资产寻求）在离岸外包决策中的作用，同时区分了离岸外包和向国外分支机构的离岸外包。第三项研究使用多个案例研究，进一步研究了公司采购策略从内部开展核心活动到逐渐外包和离岸外包的演变。论文的最后一项研究考察了离岸外包和外包对核心活动绩效的影响。论文的数据来自多个来源：深入的结构化访谈以及对药物临床副总裁在线调查的主要数据生物技术公司以及Medidata，Orbis和World Development Indicators的辅助数据。论文提供了证据，表明公司倾向于出于不同的动机而使用不同的采购策略。特别是，将外国子公司的外包主要是由战略因素驱动的，并且公司倾向于出于战略资产寻找的目的而偏爱该战略。另一方面，离岸外包则受到寻求资源和效率的行为的推动，而这一战略的重要决定因素主要是可操作的。第三类采购策略是国内外包，而公司受该策略的战略和运营决定因素驱动。对战略演变的定性研究指向五个阶段的过程，该过程从内部外包开始，然后是国内外包，国外分支机构，离岸外包，最后是核心活动的外包。论文的证据表明，与内部相比，外包对绩效有正面影响，而与国内外包相比，离岸外包有负面影响。

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    Thakur, Pooja.;

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    Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark.;

  • 授予单位 Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark.;
  • 学科 Business Administration Management.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 231 p.
  • 总页数 231
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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