中国服务外包基地城市竞争力对离岸发包方需求决策的影响——基于中国14个服务外包基地城市的面板数据分析

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF CHINA'S SERVICE OUTSOURCING-BASE CITIES——An Analysis Based on the Principal Component Method

本文基于中国14个服务外包基地城市的面板数据,对中国服务外包基地城市竞争力对离岸服务外包发包方的需求决策影响程度进行了研究。研究表明,首先,解释变量Supo,Infr,Humr,Cost和Proc的估计系数的符号均和理论假说1、假说2、假说4、假说5和假说6的预期相一致。其次,商务环境、制造业外包经验的协调力量和制造业外包经验的独立力量,高度影响了外国发包方对14个城市的服务外包的需求决策。再次,基地城市的基础设施的高效率足以抵消其成本竞争力的劣势。同时,本文还指出,中国基地城市的现有和潜在的人力资本供给的规模和结构同代表服务外包主流的业务流程外包(BPO)和知识流程(KPO)外包的需求之间存在结构性矛盾。

By using FEM and GLS, this paper estimated the effects of the competitiveness of 14 service-outsourcing-base cities on the foreign firm＇s decision-making of the off-shore outsourcing during 2006-2008 in China. Its empirical results first confirmed five theoretical hypotheses to correspond to the sign direction of coefficients of their explanatory variables. Secondly, this paper implied that the business environment and international experience of manufacture outsourcing played an important role in influencing the firm＇s offshore-outsourcing making-decision. Thirdly, this research indicated that the efficiency advantage of the base-city＇s infrastructure could offset their cost disadvantage. It also implied that the existing and potential supplies of the human capital could not fully match its demands in China.