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Limits to Outsourcing and the Evolutionary Perspective on Firm Boundaries

According to the author, adopting an evolutionary process perspective suggests limits to outsourcing due to governance inseparability and partly tacit complementarity of capabilities as well as related disaggregation costs, including the costs of knowledge codification in the specification of interfaces in supplier/buyer relations, loss of absorptive capacity and integrating capabilities in the suppliers system.