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The Effects of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Distributed Product Development Organization on Coordinating the NPD Process
Edward G. Anderson University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management Alison Davis-Blake affiliation not provided to SSRN Sinan Erzurumlu Babson College - Technology, Operations and Information Management Division (TOIM) Nitin Joglekar Boston University - Department of Operations and Technology Management Geoffrey Parker Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business HANDBOOK ON NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT, C. Loch, S. Kavadias, eds., Elsevier, 2007 Abstract: Outsourcing arrangements continue to evolve from peripheral activities, such as food services and back office transaction processing, to encompass more core activities such as new product development. Some arrangements maintain a clear lead organization while others, such as open source networks, are less centralized. We develop a framework identify the specific impact of different outsourcing arrangements on the search, selection, transformation, and coordination processes involved in new product development new product development.
Keywords: outsourcing, offshoring, product development, distributed product development, modularity, product design JEL Classifications: D2, L2, M1 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: August 27, 2008 ; Last revised: October 27, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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