外包與供應基地

Outsourcing and the Supply Base

陳思永(Shih-Yung Chen)

指導教授 ： 陳虹如

國立臺灣大學/社會科學院/經濟學研究所/碩士(2010年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2010.02978

摘要

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關鍵字

外包 ； 供應基地 ； Move-to-the-middle 假說 ； 搜尋成本 ； 代理人問題

並列摘要

One of the major explanations of increasing outsourcing activities is decreasing communication or search cost. However, some argue that it cannot explain the recent trend of firms utilizing smaller supply bases while increasing the degree of outsourcing, which has been documented as the “move to the middle hypothesis”. We use a principal-agent framework model to examine this issue. Our numerical results support the argument that the viewpoint of communication or search cost alone cannot explain the phenomenon. We show that firms prefer a smaller supply base when the non-contractible investment is valuable. Also, a firm might use outsourcing strategy even when communication or search cost is high.

並列關鍵字

Outsourcing ； Supply base ； Move-to-the-middle hypothesis ； Search cost ； Principle-agent problem

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