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Outsourcing and Innovative Activity of the Companies From the Visegrád Group

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Marek Tomaszewski

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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2014.06.006

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Marek Tomaszewski, Ph.D., Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Zielona Góra, Poland.

ABSTRACT

Outsourcing is a change from horizontal cooperation (coopetition) to a vertical one. That is, the company, which up to now could be considered as a competitor, changes into a supplier. It is worth remembering that the company that is to become a supplier can either create a new one or be an already existing one. This article is based on empirical data coming from the companies from the Visegrád Group that is Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The results presented here imply that outsourcing has a stimulating effect on innovative activity of a company both in terms of investment and implementation aspects. Also, innovative activity, in its investment and implementation aspects, positively influences the occurrence of outsourcing. This confirms the existence of feedback among these variables. It is worth noting however, that the probability of innovative activity among the companies using outsourcing is higher than the probability of outsourcing among the companies that are innovatively active. It seems that the influence of outsourcing on innovative activity is stronger than the influence of innovative activity on outsourcing.

KEYWORDS

outsourcing, innovative activity, Visegrád Group

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