The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing decisions: Evidence from patent prosecution services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Chondrakis ◽  
Eduardo Melero ◽  
Mari Sako
Keyword(s):  
Coordination Requirements ◽  
Sourcing Decisions

Implications of uncertainty on firm outsourcing decisions

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
David R. King
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
New Products ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sourcing Decisions ◽  
Related Transaction

Outsourcing inherently considers what activity needs to reside within a given firm. The difficulty of exchanges between firms in the face of uncertainty affects where work on developing and producing new products is performed. Theory is developed and explored using a case study that explains firm sourcing decisions as a response to uncertainty within the context of industry structure and related transaction costs. Viewing outsourcing broadly results in a better delineation of outsourcing options. Implications for management research and practice are identified.

scholarly journals Differentiating Between Two Models of Motor Lateralization

2008 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britne A. Shabbott ◽  
Robert L. Sainburg
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Dominant Hemisphere ◽  
Virtual Reality Environment ◽  
Correction Model ◽  
Rotation Direction ◽  
Coordination Requirements ◽  
Feedback Correction ◽  
Dynamic Dominance

This study was designed to differentiate between two models of motor lateralization: “feedback corrections” and dynamic dominance. Whereas the feedback correction hypothesis suggests that handedness reflects a dominant hemisphere advantage for visual-mediated correction processes, dynamic dominance proposes that each hemisphere has become specialized for distinct aspects of control. This model suggests that the dominant hemisphere is specialized for controlling task dynamics, as required for coordinating efficient trajectories, and the nondominant hemisphere is specialized for controlling limb impedance, as required for maintaining stable postures. To differentiate between these two models, we examined whether visuomotor corrections are mediated differently for the nondominant and dominant arms. Participants performed targeted reaches in a virtual reality environment in which visuomotor rotations occurred in two directions that elicited corrections with different coordination requirements. The feedback correction model predicts a dominant arm advantage for the timing and accuracy of corrections in both directions. Dynamic dominance predicts that correction timing and accuracy will be similar for both arms, but that interlimb differences in the quality of corrections will depend on the coordination requirements, and thus, direction of corrections. Our results indicated that correction time and accuracy did not depend on arm. However, correction quality, as reflected by trajectory curvature, depended on both arm and rotation direction. Nondominant trajectories were systematically more curvilinear than dominant trajectories for corrections with the highest coordination requirement. These results support the dynamic dominance hypothesis.

scholarly journals The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from US Firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (9) ◽  
pp. 2514-2564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pol Antràs ◽  
Teresa C. Fort ◽  
Felix Tintelnot
Keyword(s):  
Cost Function ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Global Sourcing ◽  
Trade Shocks ◽  
Relevant Condition ◽  
Sourcing Decisions ◽  
Country Specific

We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions naturally interact through the firm's cost function. We show that, under an empirically relevant condition, selection into importing exhibits complementarities across source markets. We exploit these complementarities to solve the firm's problem and estimate the model. Comparing counterfactual predictions to reduced-form evidence highlights the importance of interdependencies in firms' sourcing decisions across markets, which generate heterogeneous domestic sourcing responses to trade shocks. (JEL D24, F14, F23, L14, L21)

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