Beyond Cost: The Role of Intellectual Capital in Offshoring and Innovation in Young Firms
基于智力资本视角，研究了年轻创业企业将知识密集型复杂工作离岸外包的动因，并探讨了特定智力资本配置下离岸外包如何促进创新。
Using the intellectual capital perspective as a theoretical framework, we develop a conceptual model of offshoring of knowledge–intensive, complex work by young, entrepreneurial firms. We posit that the unique qualities of human, social, and organizational capital of such firms drive them to offshore complex, nonroutine activities to foreign vendors. In addition, we argue that offshoring of such activities can lead to innovation under certain intellectual capital configurations.