Suprimento global de serviços de conhecimento e inovação: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Global sourcing of knowledge services and innovation (GSKSI) has been the subject of several studies in a wide range of areas, including strategy and international management, economic geography, organizational behavior, operations management, among others. The objectives of this paper are twofold: a) to produce a summary of GSKSI studies and b) provide a research agenda for GSKSI. We conducted a systematic review of the academic literature and found that, in addition to essays, reports and theoretical papers, empirical studies on GSKSI are distributed into four main categories: strategic and international management; technology and innovation management; labor, organizational behavior and human resources; and operations management. Our paper contributes in two unique ways: by providing a quantitative analysis of the literature and a qualitative assessment of the results of previous studies.