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    Fragmenting global business processes: A protection for proprietary information

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    Publication type
    FT ranked journal article  
    Author
    Gooris, Julien
    Peeters, Carine
    Publication Year
    2016
    Journal
    Journal of International Business Studies
    Publication Volume
    47
    Publication Issue
    5
    Publication Begin page
    535
    Publication End page
    562
    
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    Abstract
    This study shows that, when sourcing business services in foreign countries, the fragmentation of processes across production units acts as an operational-level adjustment variable for firms to adapt their information protection approach to the regulative environment of the host country they have selected and to the possibility to use internal controls over the activities performed abroad. We hypothesize that, when the above mechanisms are not available, firms are more likely to fragment processes across multiple foreign production units instead of collocating all process tasks in the same unit. Thanks to IT-enabled integration capabilities, firms can exploit the complementarities between the dispersed fragments of a process while reducing the misappropriation hazard of individual fragments. Empirical results and robustness tests are strongly congruent with these hypotheses. We find also that the propensity to turn to the process fragmentation protection mechanism increases with firm host-country-specific experience and with the alternative value of the proprietary information involved in the activity sourced abroad.
    Keyword
    International Business
    Knowledge Domain/Industry
    Strategy
    DOI
    10.1057/jibs.2015.44
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/5344
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1057/jibs.2015.44
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