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Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view

The relentless searching of strategic sourcing, due to the fact that globalization is inevitable and today’s manufacturers are competing in highly competitive environment, has pooled many business practices into two competing school of thoughts related to sourcing strategies, i.e. Transaction Cost E...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Haim Hilman, Warokka, Ari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IBIMA Publishing 2011
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HB Economic Theory
TS Manufactures
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/7154/1/457377.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.71542016-04-21T06:20:30Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7154/ Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view Abdullah, Haim Hilman Warokka, Ari HB Economic Theory TS Manufactures The relentless searching of strategic sourcing, due to the fact that globalization is inevitable and today’s manufacturers are competing in highly competitive environment, has pooled many business practices into two competing school of thoughts related to sourcing strategies, i.e. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) Theory and Resource Based View (RBV).This paper explored sourcing strategies and sourcing supplying countries of firms in Malaysia in responding to the intensified competition and put these strategies as an integral parts of firms’ distinctive competencies.Specifically, the results indicated sourcing strategies have significant effects to both financial and non-financial performance. However, both models indicated the ‘self-produce’ and ‘outsourcing’ strategies affect non-financial performance more than financial performance.The results also indicated the most popular supplying countries for both sourcing strategies (self produce and outsourcing) are Malaysia, China and Singapore and the majority of them received supply from one country.These findings provide new insights of sourcing practices among Malaysia based manufacturing firms and how those companies perceive and react to the competition environment surrounding them. IBIMA Publishing 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7154/1/457377.pdf Abdullah, Haim Hilman and Warokka, Ari (2011) Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view. Journal of Outsourcing & Organizational Information Management, 2011 (2011). pp. 1-10. ISSN 21554846 http://dx.doi.org/10.5171/2011.457377 doi:10.5171/2011.457377
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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TS Manufactures
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TS Manufactures
Abdullah, Haim Hilman
Warokka, Ari
Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
description The relentless searching of strategic sourcing, due to the fact that globalization is inevitable and today’s manufacturers are competing in highly competitive environment, has pooled many business practices into two competing school of thoughts related to sourcing strategies, i.e. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) Theory and Resource Based View (RBV).This paper explored sourcing strategies and sourcing supplying countries of firms in Malaysia in responding to the intensified competition and put these strategies as an integral parts of firms’ distinctive competencies.Specifically, the results indicated sourcing strategies have significant effects to both financial and non-financial performance. However, both models indicated the ‘self-produce’ and ‘outsourcing’ strategies affect non-financial performance more than financial performance.The results also indicated the most popular supplying countries for both sourcing strategies (self produce and outsourcing) are Malaysia, China and Singapore and the majority of them received supply from one country.These findings provide new insights of sourcing practices among Malaysia based manufacturing firms and how those companies perceive and react to the competition environment surrounding them.
format Article
author Abdullah, Haim Hilman
Warokka, Ari
author_facet Abdullah, Haim Hilman
Warokka, Ari
author_sort Abdullah, Haim Hilman
title Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
title_short Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
title_full Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
title_fullStr Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: A test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
title_sort malaysian based manufacturing firms’ strategic sourcing: a test of transaction cost economics theory and resource based view
publisher IBIMA Publishing
publishDate 2011
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/7154/1/457377.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5171/2011.457377
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