TY - JOUR
T1 - RECIPROCAL SUBCONTRACTING IN GLOBAL FACTORIES
T2 - 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2022
AU - Murphree, Michael
AU - Anderson, John Andy
AU - Buckey, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Academy of Management. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Scholars commonly assume contract manufacturers must grow to achieve minimum viable scale. This study of contract manufacturers in global factories reveals how “reciprocal subcontracting” enables SMEs to sustain competitiveness while also remaining small. Taking the Penrosean growth perspective in the context of the global factory framework, we explore how SME contract manufacturers achieve competitive advantage. We find lead firms largely conform to established theory, but small contract manufacturers achieve “borrowed growth” external to the firm. This externalization of production capacity growth supports our call for theoretical extension to the Penrosean growth perspective.
AB - Scholars commonly assume contract manufacturers must grow to achieve minimum viable scale. This study of contract manufacturers in global factories reveals how “reciprocal subcontracting” enables SMEs to sustain competitiveness while also remaining small. Taking the Penrosean growth perspective in the context of the global factory framework, we explore how SME contract manufacturers achieve competitive advantage. We find lead firms largely conform to established theory, but small contract manufacturers achieve “borrowed growth” external to the firm. This externalization of production capacity growth supports our call for theoretical extension to the Penrosean growth perspective.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85188131970
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.28
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.28
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85208717793
SN - 0065-0668
VL - 2022
JO - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
IS - 1
Y2 - 5 August 2022 through 9 August 2022
ER -
