Network effects on SMEs’ offshoring
The purpose of the present paper is to move closer to two registers of knowledge : SMEs’ offshoring and SMEs’ networks. In order to, the Uppsala model and isomorphism concept to highlight the role of networks, inter-organizational or interpersonal, on SMEs’ offshoring decisions. This analysis of the literature will be confronted to a qualitative study realized on two SMEs belonging to the same network. The results shows that networks can encourage a SMEs’ offshoring-induced via a mimetic isomorphism and can stop this strategy via a coercive isomorphism.