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Author Cantone, Luigi

Title Strategic Outsourcing, Innovation and Global Supply Chains A Case Study from the Aviation Industry
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (245 p.)
Series Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management Series
Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Outsourcing in times of disruption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. In search of a supply chain in times of disruption -- 1.2.1. Disruption from digital technologies -- 1.2.2. Disruption from social and environmental sustainability -- 1.2.3. Disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine -- 1.3. The Gruppo Schiano case study: How shifts in customer behaviour drive innovation in the bicycle industry manufacturing paradigm and supply chain
1.3.1. Introduction -- 1.3.2. Highlights of the bicycle market -- 1.3.3. The history of the bicycle industry -- 1.3.4. The company profile -- 1.3.5. From mass production to mass customization -- 1.3.6. Conclusions and implications for management -- 2. Theories of the firm and implications for outsourcing -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Transaction Cost Economics Theory (TCET) -- 2.3. Resource-Based Theory (RBT) -- 2.4. Competence-Based Competition Theory (CBCT) -- 2.5. Strategic Assets Theory (SAT) -- 2.6. Dynamic Capability Theory (DCT) -- 2.7. Knowledge-Based Theory (KBT)
2.8. Open Innovation Theory (OIT) -- 2.9. Network Theory (NT) and Supply-Chain Network Theory (SCNT) -- 3. A review of existing models in the strategic outsourcing literature -- 3.1. Outsourcing decision-making and types of outsourcing -- 3.2. Kraljic's portfolio-purchasing model -- 3.3. Quinn's model -- 3.4. Baden-Fuller et al. model -- 3.5. Sislian and Satir's model -- 3.6. McIvor's model -- 3.7. Becker and Zirpoli's model
4. A case study. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner programme: leveraging the capabilities of the global and collaborative supply-partner network through technological disruption in the aircraft industry -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Methodology -- 4.2.1. Empirical research based on case study -- 4.2.2. The sample of companies involved in the case study -- 4.3. The perspective of the OEM: the rationale behind the launch of the B787-8 programme -- 4.3.1. Difficulties and delays in the B787-8 programme -- 4.3.2. The mitigation strategy for solving difficulties along the supply chain
4.4. The "Small prime" contractor's perspective: Leonardo and the rationale behind the decision to join the B787-8 programme -- 4.4.1. How Leonardo exploited and explored new core competencies through the B787-8 Dreamliner programme -- 4.4.2. Leonardo's perspective on supply chain management in the B787-8 programme -- 4.5. The tier-2 perspective: Dema and the rationale behind the decision to join the B787-8 programme -- 4.5.1. A new approach to supply-chain management for the Boeing 787-9 programme -- 4.5.2. Exploiting Dema's new competencies through the B787-8 programme
Notes Description based upon print version of record
4.6. The tier-2 Geven perspective: the rationale behind the decision to join the B787-8 programme
Subject Aircraft industry
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Aircraft industry.
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Form Electronic book
Author Testa, Pierpaolo
Cantone, Giuseppe Fabio
ISBN 9781000862348
1000862348