Reconceptualizing plural sourcing
重新定义了多元采购，将其视为制造与购买、制造与联盟、购买与联盟三种治理模式的组合，并提出了预测企业选择特定多元采购模式的命题。
Firms often procure the same input via multiple means, e.g., making and buying. Recent papers have yielded rich, but inconsistent, theoretical and empirical insights. Resolving these inconsistencies requires reconceptualizing two aspects of plural sourcing: what and how. We reconceptualize plural sourcing as a set of combined governance modes—make‐and‐buy, make‐and‐ally, and buy‐and‐ally—which differ in their capabilities and limitations. We demonstrate our reconceptualization's potential with propositions predicting the choice of specific plural sourcing modes . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.