Outsourcing a aktywność innowacyjna przedsiębiorstw w wybranych krajach nadbałtyckich
Outsourcing and Innovative Activity of Enterprises in the Selected Baltic States

Summary/Abstract: Outsourcing is a change from the horizontal cooperation (coopetition) between enterprises to a vertical one. That is, the company, which up to now could be considered a competitor, changes into a supplier. It is worth remembering that the company that is to become a supplier can be either created anew or be an already existing one. This article presents an empirical analysis of the relation between outsourcing and innovative activity of enterprises, using probit models. Empirical data come from a large sample of companies from the selected Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia). The results presented here imply that outsourcing has a stimulating effect on innovative activity of a company, both in terms of investment and implementation. There is also an inverse dependence, i.e., innovative activity positively influences the occurrence of outsourcing. This confirms the existence of a feedback between these processes. It is worth noting however that the probability of innovative activity among the companies using outsourcing is higher than the probability of outsourcing among the companies that are innovatively active. It seems therefore that the influence of outsourcing on innovative activity is stronger than the influence of innovative activity on outsourcing.

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