Abstract
Studying the outsourcing concept, as a strategy for efficient and effective business management, has been implemented less in the field of entrepreneurship. Accordingly, the present study aims to develop a measurement instrument for measuring entrepreneurial outsourcing construct utilizing empirical evidence in Iran’s telecommunications and automotive industries. Employing a sample of 203 senior managers and executive experts of companies operating in these industries, the gathered data were analyzed using PLS-SEM method. According to our results, the proposed scale of entrepreneurial outsourcing comprises six dimensions: strategic factors, economical factors, technological factors, task specifications, risk relating factors, and entrepreneurial performance. Moreover, the scale enjoys sufficient multidimensionality, reliability, and construct validity in terms of convergent and discriminate validity.
Highlights
In the present circumstances that organizations deal with issues such as rapid changes in technology, complex competition, rapid growth in the number of new competitors, variety of customer’s needs and demands, and general desire to enhance efficiency and productivity, enterprises can benefit competitive strengths through sustaining corporate entrepreneurship, which is determined as a factor of stimulation and strengthening innovativeness, risk taking, and proactiveness (Covin and Miles, 2006; Dess and Lumpkin, 2005)
Our studies revealed that outsourcing reflects in six major dimensions including strategic factors, economical factors, technological factors, specifications of the tasks, risk relating factors, and firms’ entrepreneurial performance
The research findings regarding the identification of the dimensions of entrepreneurial outsourcing and relevant indicators to build a measurement tool demonstrated that six dimensions of strategic factors, economical factors, technological factors, risk, task specifications, and entrepreneurial performance determine entrepreneurial outsourcing construct well
Summary
In the present circumstances that organizations deal with issues such as rapid changes in technology, complex competition, rapid growth in the number of new competitors, variety of customer’s needs and demands, and general desire to enhance efficiency and productivity, enterprises can benefit competitive strengths through sustaining corporate entrepreneurship, which is determined as a factor of stimulation and strengthening innovativeness, risk taking, and proactiveness (Covin and Miles, 2006; Dess and Lumpkin, 2005). Partnership and outsourcing is one of the most important issues the organizations are faced with, because companies have limited resources and financially cannot have all technologies within the company. Increased awareness of the importance of outsourcing decisions is the result of such organizational changes. The result is increased awareness of the importance of outsourcing decisions. According to what has been said and due to the lack of researches in the field of investigating entrepreneurial outsourcing, the present research intends to develop and validate a measurement tool for measuring this concept bridging the gap in research between outsourcing and entrepreneurship
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