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Innovation: Step-Change in Outsourcing: Towards Collaborative Innovation

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This chapter provides insights into how companies that are relatively mature in their sourcing capabilities are using outsourcing to achieve innovation. Our research finds that this can be achieved through collaborative practices that have distinctive attributes, and a process we call collaborative innovation.

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  1. Edgar Whitley
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Whitley, E., Willcocks, L.P. (2012). Innovation: Step-Change in Outsourcing: Towards Collaborative Innovation. In: The New IT Outsourcing Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012296_4

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