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Title


The Paradox of Opportunity and Limitations for Sub-suppliers

Authors


Kristian Philipsen
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Kristian Philipsen ,
Kristin B. Munksgaard
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Kristin B. Munksgaard and
Torben Damgaard
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Torben Damgaard

Place of Publication


The paper was published at the 20th IMP-conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004.

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Abstract


How does a company perceive its opportunities and describe and analyze these if the company isnot viewed as an isolated island, but viewed from a network context perspective? The aim of thispaper is to analyze this question by conducting a literature review combined with an exploratoryinvestigating of three ideal types of sub-suppliers based on empirical information from an ongoingresearch project of sub-suppliers. The paper contributes by arguing a sub-supplier's perceptions ofopportunities seem to be linked to the specific type of sub-supplier.