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Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the various aspects of information systems outsourcing and offshoring, including the impact of knowledge sharing, organizational capability, partnership quality, transaction cost economics, supply chain management, and strategic alliances. It also delves into the role of third-party logistics, global sourcing, and the implications for firm performance and competitiveness.

  • Outsourcing
  • Offshoring
  • Information Technology
  • Third-Party Logistics
  • Global Sourcing
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Transaction Cost Economics
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Organizational Capability
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Which countries lead Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (364 and 315 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 364 works
  2. 2 United States 315 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 157 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 154 works
  5. 5 India 153 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 147 works
  7. 7 Brazil 119 works
  8. 8 Germany 99 works
  9. 9 France 84 works
  10. 10 Australia 63 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 22.0%United States: 19.0%Türkiye: 9.5%Indonesia: 9.3%6 others listed: 40.2%22%largest
China364 · 22.0%United States315 · 19.0%Türkiye157 · 9.5%Indonesia154 · 9.3%6 others listed666 · 40.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology publishes the most Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research, followed by University of Johannesburg and Copenhagen Business School.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 19 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 14 works
  3. 3 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 12 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 11 works
  5. 5 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 11 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 11 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  8. 8 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 10 works
  9. 9 RMIT UniversityAustralia 10 works
  10. 10 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management include Claes Fornell, Hua Zhang and Jay Bryan Barney.

  1. 1 Claes Fornell United States 198k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k citations
  4. 4 Richard P. Bagozzi United States 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management?

The most cited paper in Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management is "DEFINING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT" (John T. Mentzer, William Dewitt, James S. Keebler et al., 2001), with 5,094 citations. Next come "The Delphi method as a research tool: an example, design considerations and applications" (4,811) and "Does Trust Matter? Exploring the Effects of Interorganizational and Interpersonal Trust on Performance" (4,059).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DEFINING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT John T. Mentzer, William Dewitt, James S. Keebler et al. · Journal of Business Logistics Sep 2001 5,094
2 The Delphi method as a research tool: an example, design considerations and applications Chitu Okoli, Suzanne D. Pawlowski · Information & Management 30 Mar 2004 4,811
3 Does Trust Matter? Exploring the Effects of Interorganizational and Interpersonal Trust on Performance Akbar Zaheer, Bill McEvily, Vincenzo Perrone · Organization Science Apr 1998 4,059
4 Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements? Laura Poppo, Todd R. Zenger · Strategic Management Journal May 2002 3,657
5 Introduction to Operations Research Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler, Frederick S. Hillier, G. J. Lieberman · Technometrics May 1968 3,347
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research done?

The largest centres of Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), Nairobi (Kenya) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 49 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 42 works
  3. 3 NairobiKenya 42 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 34 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 28 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 26 works
  8. 8 Hong KongChina 24 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 24 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 41.8 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Johannesburg and Norwegian University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 6.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Norwegian University…University of Johann…Copenhagen Business …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 74.314.5%4.7×11 +33.4%
2University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 56.68.5%8.8×14 +20.2%
3Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 53.114.2%6.6×10 -21.8%
4Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 51.18.1%29.3×12 -12.4%
5RMIT UniversityAustralia 48.65.2%9.9×10 +9.5%
6Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 47.34.3%61.6×19 -49.2%
7Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 33.65.3%5.7×10 +105.0%
8Kenyatta UniversityKenya 30.40.0%29.5×11 +47.0%
9Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 28.20.0%62.2×10 +163.0%
10Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 26.06.2%2.6×12 -62.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, country by country

Is Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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