Global Sourcing Decision-Making Processes: Politics, Intuition, and Procedural Rationality

摘要: Global sourcing (GS) is a firmly established phenomenon in modern business practice that requires specific expertise from different organizational functions, such as purchasing, production, logistics, and research development to analyze select alternatives effectively. In this context, global decision-making (GSDM) processes pose major challenges because two dimensions of functional politics, namely goal misalignment power imbalance across appear influence procedural rationality manner not understood date. Likewise, intuition also seems play role for the GSDM processes. To elucidate conditions under which hampered or enhanced by politics intuition, we studied five cross-functional processes, front extant strategic literature. We derive formal propositions on how present contingencies divergent well GDSM Our contributes existing GS literature providing theoretical model important microfoundations evolve. The findings guide managers structure projects can be conducted more rational fashion.