What are the determinants and consequences of shared service centers? A meta-synthesis of empirical literature

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Beitragende

Abstract

Shared Service Center's (SSC) are important and complex organizational models that occupy a central place in multinational companies' attention. Recognizing that previous studies produced rich albeit fragmented insights, we aim to synthesize these findings and develop a two-dimensional SSC framework. In essence, this metasynthesis extracts, analyzes and synthesizes qualitative case study findings to elucidate determinants that influence SSC outcomes and decisions. In line with economic, strategic, and socio-organizational theories, we capture findings as pairs of independent and dependent variables. Results show that a large number of independent variables, aggregated in 13 categories, affect 41 dependent variables of SSCs. Our findings contribute to understanding SSC effect-relationships that supports the building of theories about SSC phenomena in future research.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)113-116
Seitenumfang4
FachzeitschriftThe OR Society Annual Conference
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel58th Annual Conference on Operational Research Society
KurztitelOR 2016
Veranstaltungsnummer58
Dauer6 - 8 September 2016
OrtUniversity of Portsmouth
StadtPortsmouth
LandGroßbritannien/Vereinigtes Königreich

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-8891-3861/work/145699074

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Institutional theory, Meta-synthesis, Resource-based view, Shared services, Transaction cost theory