The Paradox of Opportunity and Limitations for Sub-suppliers

Authors: Kristian Philipsen; Kristin Balslev Munksgaard; Torben Damgaard

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.

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Publish Year: 2004

Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark (2004)