What are the determinants and consequences of shared service centers? A meta-synthesis of empirical literature
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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
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 113-116 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | The OR Society Annual Conference |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
Title | 58th Annual Conference on Operational Research Society |
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Abbreviated title | OR 2016 |
Conference number | 58 |
Duration | 6 - 8 September 2016 |
Location | University of Portsmouth |
City | Portsmouth |
Country | United Kingdom |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0002-8891-3861/work/145699074 |
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Keywords
- Institutional theory, Meta-synthesis, Resource-based view, Shared services, Transaction cost theory