Title :
An Analysis on the Outsourcing Network Evolution Pathway: in the Perspective of Social Network
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage. & Econ., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing
Abstract :
The evolution of outsourcing network is realized through the co-act by enterprise´s social capital and structural hole. The role of enterprise´s social capital is passing through by using the trust as a medium. While the role of structural hole lies in its positional advantage, including: information advantage and control advantage. Implementing with social network theory, the paper analyses the outsourcing network´s characteristics and working mechanism from the viewpoint of enterprise´s social capital and structural hole, and finally examine this mechanism with case studies of Toyota.
Keywords :
outsourcing; enterprise social capital-structural hole; outsourcing network; outsourcing network evolution pathway; social network theory; Bridges; Cities and towns; Electronic mail; Instruments; Investments; Outsourcing; Power generation economics; Social network services; Sun; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1311-9
DOI :
10.1109/WICOM.2007.1452