Factors Influencing SME Outsourcing: Evidence from Romania

Ottilia György; Szilárd Madaras

doi:10.2478/auseb-2020-0001

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Factors Influencing SME Outsourcing: Evidence from Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and Business

Volume 8 (2020): Issue 1 (October 2020)

By: Ottilia György and Szilárd Madaras

Open Access

|Oct 2020

Abstract

The present research, based on a national representative survey analysis of SMEs (that is, small and medium enterprises) from Romania, focuses on the main factors influencing companies’ outsourcing. It considers the following dimensions of outsourcing: organizational characteristics, environmental characteristics, relational capabilities, and institutional networks. The results suggest that the younger the SMEs and the more stable their relationship with local institutions, the more likely is for them to adopt outsourcing solutions. Moreover, those SMEs that have secondary offices and have some cooperation with the state also rely on outsourcing. Our results suggest that sector membership also proves to be a signifficant factor in outsourcing. We ffind that the highest percentage of outsourcing was done in construction, industry as well as hotels and restaurants sectors.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auseb-2020-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2360-0047 (formerly 2343-8894)

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Language: English

Page range: 5 - 18

Published online: Oct 14, 2020

Published in print: Oct 1, 2020

Published by: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

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Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

SMEs,

outsourcing,

business relationships

JEL:

L26,

J24

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Economic theory, systems and structures

© 2020 Ottilia György, Szilárd Madaras, published by Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Volume 8 (2020): Issue 1 (October 2020)