Value Creation and Value Claiming in Strategic Outsourcing Decisions: A Resource Contingency Perspective
整合价值创造与价值索取概念，提出资源价值最大化依赖于外包决策中的价值索取动机，基于178家出版印刷企业的应用服务外包数据，发现资源价值与交易成本同时被考虑，外包决策取决于资源与交易属性的匹配。
This study integrates the concepts of value creation and value claiming into a theoretical framework that emphasizes the dependence of resource value maximization on value-claiming motivations in outsourcing decisions. To test this theoretical framework, it develops refutable implications to explain the firm's outsourcing decision, and it uses data from 178 firms in the publishing and printing industry on outsourcing of application services. The results show that in outsourcing decisions, resource value and transaction costs are simultaneously considered and that outsourcing decisions are dependent on alignment between resource and transaction attributes. The findings support a resource contingency view that highlights value-claiming mechanisms as resource contingency in interorganizational strategic decisions.