Book Details

Cooperative Sourcing

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-8350-5588-9

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Based on the integration of relevant economic and organizational theories, Daniel Beimborn develops a formal model of cooperative sourcing. The model captures the different drivers and inhibitors like economies of scale, scope and skill, transaction costs, strategic constraints etc. and forms the basis for both game-theoretical analyses and agent-based simulations. Simulations help to handle the numerical complexity and allow for compound analyses of the causes and effects of cooperative sourcing. Empirical data from two large-scale surveys and case studies in the German credit business are used in order to feed the simulation model and to validate the results.


Subject: Business and Economics, Bankenindustrie, Banking, Banking Industry, Business Process Outsourcing, Coopetition, Markteffekte, Outsourcing, Simulation, agent-based