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Where Governance Fails : Advanced Business Services and the Offshore World

Wojcik, Dariusz - 2011

Twenty years ago the Soviet Union was dismantled and the Cold War ended. With enlarged markets and peaceful economic co-operation the world seemed to be embarking on a path of uninterrupted development. In reality, however, we experienced two worst decades in the post WWII history in terms of...

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The End of the Great Inversion : Offshore National Champion Banks and the Global Financial Crisis

Haberly, Daniel - 2018

Here we present a novel analysis of the development of offshore banking since 1980, which addresses important but still - unanswered questions about the both the role of offshore centers in the global financial crisis, and the post-crisis stability of these centers. We show that post-1980...

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Deconstructing Offshore Finance

Clark, Gordon L. - 2016

Recent scandals involving large corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and HSBC have highlighted the problems of tax avoidance, evasion and offshore financial activities. Considering their significance to growing inequality and financial instability, renewed media and public...

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Regional Blocks and Imperial Legacies : Mapping the Global Offshore FDI Network

Haberly, Daniel - 2014

While FDI is generally assumed to represent long-term investments within the “real” economy, approximately 30-50% of global FDI is accounted for by networks of offshore shell companies created by corporations and wealthy individuals for tax and other purposes. To date, there has been limited...

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Culprits or Bystanders? Offshore Jurisdictions and the Global Financial Crisis

Haberly, Daniel - 2017

Questions have been raised regarding the role of low-tax offshore jurisdictions in the global financial crisis, based largely on evidence that many problematic asset-backed securities were issued from or listed in the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Ireland, and other ‘offshore' sites. However, there...

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Offshoring and Transfer of Intellectual Property

Wiederhold, Gio; Gupta, Amar; Neuhold, Erich - 2014

Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to … relationships of IP residing in software to the business models used for outsourcing. The use of a quantitative model for software …

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Offshoring : The Transition from Economic Drivers Toward Strategic Global Partnership and 24-Hour Knowledge Factory

Gupta, Amar; Seshasai, Satwik; Mukherji, Sourav; … - 2012

The concept of offshoring of professional services first gained attention slightly over 25 years ago. At that time, US … labor aspects of offshoring and its direct impact on employment opportunities in the countries involved. This paper broadens … this perspective by emphasizing that the key drivers for offshoring will be strategic, not economic, over time. A formal …

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Outsourcing from the Perspectives of International Protocols, Law, Intellectual Property, and Taxation

Gupta, Amar; Wiederhold, Gio; Smith, David Branson; … - 2013

hard look at cost numbers before embarking on outsourcing. Apart from the cost of labor, equipment, and incidentals, are … needed to address the above types of questions, as well as other outsourcing related questions, such as: * What is the United … States doing to encourage/discourage outsourcing? Are these actions legal under current international trading rules? * Is the …

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Global Outsourcing of Professional Services

Seshasai, Satwik; Gupta, Amar - 2005

convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …

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