chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

This paper examines the outsourcing of research and development and of innovation activities in small and medium …, is the outsourcing of these activities a viable solution for them? This paper examines the basic characteristics of … outsourcing R&D and innovation activities in SMEs, based on a survey among Slovenian companies in the manufacturing and service …

high levels of outsourcing of accounting tasks in the case of Montenegro, where, based on our sample, 75.4% of companies … enter outsourcing arrangements with bookkeeping agencies or with external accountants. With an adaptation of International … outsourcing with those agencies. A survey was developed to investigate 12 variables that, according to the TCE model, influence …

Purpose - The paper aims to explore the application of outsourcing in hotel enterprises in the ubrovnik-Neretva County …. The purpose of the paper is to explore the correlation between outsourcing and innovativeness of hotel companies. Design …/methodology/approach - The hypothesis is that an increase in the level of outsourcing is related to a higher degree of innovation of hotel …