플랜트 수출기업의 아웃소싱 파트너 선정요인에 관한 탐색적 연구

An Exploratory Study on the Outsourcing Partner Selecting Factors of Plant Exporters: A Case Study of “A” Company

This research considers to analyze the importance and priority order of outsourcing partner selecting factors on plant exporters. This research deals with case study on the outsourcing in the “A” plants exporter. To obtain the goal this research, firstly, based on reviewing previous literature and taking professional advice, the selecting factors were identified and conceptualized, and we made the hierarchy model and utilized AHP in analysis method. Secondly, AHP model constructed 3 higher factors, and 9 lower factors. Thirdly, the data used for the weight values for the outsourcing partner factors were collected from outsourcing experts and officers in “A” company. The 3 higher factors were ‘Firm’s Competence’, ‘Customer/User Factor’, and ‘Systemic Factor’, and the 9 lower factors were ‘experience of outsourcing’, ‘competency based HR’, ‘market share’, ‘reliability’, and ‘communication’, etc. As the results of the analysis, this research evaluated with an importance highest among selecting factors of outsourcing partner of “A” company were ‘Customer/User Factor(46.5%)’, ‘Systemic Factor(27.8%)’ and ‘Firm’s Competence(25.7%)’. And importance highest among lower selecting factors of outsourcing partner of “A” company were ‘reliability(31.4%)’, ‘competency based HR(14.4%)’ and ‘communication(13.7%)’. The developed model and selecting factors of outsourcing partner are expected to contribute on effective decisions on plants exporters. Managerial implications and future research directions are suggested based on findings.