In-house production versus specific forms of supplier governance: testing predictions of the global value chains model
by Alexander Schmitt; Johannes Van Biesebroeck
International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM), Vol. 17, No. 1, 2017

Abstract: Carmakers interact in their supply chain with virtually all manufacturing industries. Using a novel dataset on sourcing transactions that contains links between buyers and suppliers for sourcing contracts of individual components, we show that multiple forms of relationship governance can coexist within a single industry. We first show that three characteristics of transactions that have been used to rationalise observed sourcing patterns in the global value chains (GVC) literature - complexity, codifiability and supplier capability - also predict whether components are outsourced or not. More importantly, the same characteristics help explain how carmakers choose to structure supply relationships differently depending on the situation.

Online publication date: Thu, 16-Feb-2017

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