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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Outsourcing in times of disruption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. In search of a supply chain in times of disruption -- 1.2.1. Disruption from digital technologies -- 1.2.2. Disruption from social and environmental sustainability -- 1.2.3. Disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine -- 1.3. The Gruppo Schiano case study: How shifts in customer behaviour drive innovation in the bicycle industry manufacturing paradigm and supply chain -- 1.3.1. Introduction -- 1.3.2. Highlights of the bicycle market -- 1.3.3. The history of the bicycle industry -- 1.3.4. The company profile -- 1.3.5. From mass production to mass customization -- 1.3.6. Conclusions and implications for management -- 2. Theories of the firm and implications for outsourcing -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Transaction Cost Economics Theory (TCET) -- 2.3. Resource-Based Theory (RBT) -- 2.4. Competence-Based Competition Theory (CBCT) -- 2.5. Strategic Assets Theory (SAT) -- 2.6. Dynamic Capability Theory (DCT) -- 2.7. Knowledge-Based Theory (KBT) -- 2.8. Open Innovation Theory (OIT) -- 2.9. Network Theory (NT) and Supply-Chain Network Theory (SCNT) -- 3. A review of existing models in the strategic outsourcing literature -- 3.1. Outsourcing decision-making and types of outsourcing -- 3.2. Kraljic's portfolio-purchasing model -- 3.3. Quinn's model -- 3.4. Baden-Fuller et al. model -- 3.5. Sislian and Satir's model -- 3.6. McIvor's model -- 3.7. Becker and Zirpoli's model -- 4. A case study. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner programme: leveraging the capabilities of the global and collaborative supply-partner network through technological disruption in the aircraft industry -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Methodology.