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¿Qué Actividades Deberían Externalizar Las Empresas? Una Aproximación Bajo La Perspectiva De Recursos Y Capacidades /

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  • Espino Rodríguez, TF
  • Padrón Robaina, V.

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La exterrnalización es una estrategia que está cada vez más de moda en las empresas. Por lo que se hace necesario la existencia de un marco teórico consistente que permita a los directivos discernir cuando una actividad debe estar externalizada y cuando retenerla internamente. Para ello, en este trabajo se realiza un análisis de las actividades, componentes o servicios desde una perspectiva más actual, es decir, desde una perspectiva estratégica, superando la visión clásica tradicional que han seguido la mayoría de las investigaciones hasta el momento presente. Dentro de una perspectiva estratégica, consideramos que es la perspectiva de recursos y capacidades la que puede facilitar a los directivos esta labor. Los resultados de la aplicación de esta perspectiva nos permiten extraer dos ideas fundamentales: por un lado, que las empresas deben externalizar en función del valor estratégico de las actividades, y por el otro, que la externalización puede obedecer al deseo de obtener recursos y capacidades que no poseen. Además, dicha perspectiva nos permite clasificar a las actividades de la empresa en función de su valor estratégico y establecer consideraciones acerca de la externalización. / The strategy of outsourcing is becoming more and more fashionable in companies. That fact has given rise to the need for a consistent theoretical framework that enables the managers to discern when an activity can be outsourced and when to retain it in-house. lo that end, this work contains an analysis of the activities, cornponents or services from a more up-to-date perspective, in other words, a strategic perspective that goes beyond the traditional, c1assical view followed in most research until now. Within a strategic perspective, we consider that the resources and capabilities based perspective is the one that can help managers in that task. The results obtained by applying that perspective allow us to extraet two fundamental ideas. The firrns must outsource depending on the strategic value of the activities, and also to obtain the resources and capacities that they do not possess. In addition, that perspective perrnits us to c1assify the company's activities according to their strategic value and to establish considerations about the outsourcing.

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  • Espino Rodríguez, TF & Padrón Robaina, V., 2004. "¿Qué Actividades Deberían Externalizar Las Empresas? Una Aproximación Bajo La Perspectiva De Recursos Y Capacidades /," Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (IEDEE), Academia Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (AEDEM), vol. 10(1), pages 209-230.
  • Handle: RePEc:idi:jiedee:v:10:y:2004:i:1:p:209-230
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