This paper examines the effect of forced and emergent competition- and cooperation-enhancing mechanisms on joint multisourcing performance. We draw on research on coopetition in IS multisourcing and the literature on the crowding-out effect to theorise the interplay between these mechanisms. We argue that the key to understanding whether these mechanisms complement or substitute each other lies in the distinction between forced and emergent mechanisms, as these respectively invoke either an economic or a social logic among vendors.We test these ideas through a survey study of 108 multisourcing arrangements. Our results show that while a forced competition and an emergent cooperation mechanism can individually improve joint performance inmultisourcing, the co-existence of economic and social logics results in a substitutional effect.A complementaryeffect is achieved when competition andcooperation mechanisms are of the same logic. Our study extends the existing IS outsourcingliterature by shedding light on the role of forced andemergent mechanisms, either as competition or cooperation-enhancing, in enhancingmultisourcingperformance.

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多源中强制和紧急机制的互补和替代效应


本文研究了强制和紧急竞争与合作增强机制对联合多源绩效的影响。我们借鉴了对 IS 多源中竞争的研究和关于挤出效应的文献，将这些机制之间的相互作用理论化。我们认为，理解这些机制是否相互补充或替代的关键在于强制机制和涌现机制之间的区别，因为它们分别在供应商之间引发了经济或社会逻辑。我们通过对 108 个多源安排的调查研究来测试这些想法。我们的结果表明，虽然强制竞争和紧急合作机制可以单独提高多源的联合绩效，但经济和社会逻辑的共存导致了替代效应。当竞争和合作机制具有相同的逻辑时，就会实现互补效应。我们的研究通过阐明强制和紧急机制（作为竞争或合作增强）在增强多源绩效中的作用，扩展了现有的 IS 外包文献。