Antecedents of Second Order Outsourcing by Manufacturing Suppliers in Low-Cost Countries
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Abstract
The objective of this study is to identify and understand the process and factors that influence the ‘second-order’ outsourcing decision in context of manufacturing firms in low cost developing countries. Usually, big manufacturing suppliers receive more foreign manufacturing orders than they can handle with their existing infrastructure, and then, transfer part of their manufacturing process to other smaller firms due to the lack of internal capabilities and production factors. This study aims to identify factors that influence large manufacturing suppliers to go for second-order sub-contracting. A simple questionnaire was developed to collect data and a total of 126 responses were collected from mid-level managers of manufacturing outsourcing suppliers. The findings revealed that access to inter-firm resources, company focus, and internal shortages of certain resources and capabilities have significant effects on second-order outsourcing decisions. Both internal and external factors influence managerial decisions and the managers need to evaluate both internal and external environment for maximizing the benefits before adopting the outsourcing as a business strategy.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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