Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market

This work seeks to assess the outsourcing process adopted by Philips for producing LCD televisions. The authors used the Resource-based Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory for analyzing the case. Based on industry data and interviews with ten of the company's senior executives, this study so...

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Autores principales: Di Serio,Luiz Carlos, Dantas Bento,Robson, Martins,Guilherme Silveira, de Moura Castro Duarte,André Luis
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2011
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420110002000152011-08-09Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV MarketDi Serio,Luiz CarlosDantas Bento,RobsonMartins,Guilherme Silveirade Moura Castro Duarte,André Luis Outsourcing resource-based theory transaction cost theory case study This work seeks to assess the outsourcing process adopted by Philips for producing LCD televisions. The authors used the Resource-based Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory for analyzing the case. Based on industry data and interviews with ten of the company's senior executives, this study sought to understand how the decision making process was carried out and how it affected the company's activities in the field of LCD televisions. Philips has lost its competitiveness in the Brazilian market - it went from being the leader in 2006 to fourth place in 2009, both as far as regards its sales volume and value. The executives pointed out that the LCD panel is an important resource and that its supply by third parties represented a high transaction cost. The results illustrate the complementarity that exists between the RBT and TCT theories in a competitive environment that has few players.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.6 n.2 20112011-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242011000200015en10.4067/S0718-27242011000200015
institution Scielo Chile
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language English
topic Outsourcing
resource-based theory
transaction cost theory
case study
spellingShingle Outsourcing
resource-based theory
transaction cost theory
case study
Di Serio,Luiz Carlos
Dantas Bento,Robson
Martins,Guilherme Silveira
de Moura Castro Duarte,André Luis
Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
description This work seeks to assess the outsourcing process adopted by Philips for producing LCD televisions. The authors used the Resource-based Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory for analyzing the case. Based on industry data and interviews with ten of the company's senior executives, this study sought to understand how the decision making process was carried out and how it affected the company's activities in the field of LCD televisions. Philips has lost its competitiveness in the Brazilian market - it went from being the leader in 2006 to fourth place in 2009, both as far as regards its sales volume and value. The executives pointed out that the LCD panel is an important resource and that its supply by third parties represented a high transaction cost. The results illustrate the complementarity that exists between the RBT and TCT theories in a competitive environment that has few players.
author Di Serio,Luiz Carlos
Dantas Bento,Robson
Martins,Guilherme Silveira
de Moura Castro Duarte,André Luis
author_facet Di Serio,Luiz Carlos
Dantas Bento,Robson
Martins,Guilherme Silveira
de Moura Castro Duarte,André Luis
author_sort Di Serio,Luiz Carlos
title Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
title_short Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
title_full Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
title_fullStr Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
title_full_unstemmed Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV Market
title_sort strategic outsourcing? the philips case in the lcd tv market
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2011
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242011000200015
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