The Internal and External Resource Integration in Operation Process: A Case Study

Abstract

Currently, competitions among companies are not competitions between single companies, but are competitions between networks. Hence, it is very important for companies to know how to establish an effective external resource management and coordination mechanism. Company A, has achieved the integration of resource in different industries and departments, integrating the resource of various levels to a large scale. Vertically, it integrated the regional and industry resource; horizontally, it integrated the resource from internal departments and related cooperative companies. This thesis analyzes different integration models in terms of resource integration provider, network services provider, innovation network. And furthermore we focus on Company A to reveal how to integrate internal and external recourses to achieve integration advantage.