Outsourcing en las industrias tradicionalesdeterminantes de la estrategia

  1. Díaz Mora, Carmen
  2. Gandoy Juste, Rosario
Journal:
Revista de Estudios Empresariales. Segunda época

ISSN: 1988-9046

Year of publication: 2008

Issue: 1

Pages: 41-64

Type: Article

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Abstract

The present paper investigates the relevance and determinants of outsourcing in the Spanish traditional manufacturing industries using a dynamic panel data model. Data are from Industrial Companies Survey. The analysis shows the growing use of outsourcing by Spanish traditional manufacture, even higher than the rest of the manufacturing industries. The estimation results provide empirical evidence of the cost-cutting motive for outsourcing which improves, by this way, the productive efficiency and the competitiveness of the firm; nevertheless, the possibilities of using this strategy are conditioned by some firms� structural characteristics which explain that those firms with a better competitive position (due to their size, their orientation of the market or of the production) are more prone to outsourcing.

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