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. -- globalization ; outsourcing ; offshoring ; downsizing ; working conditions ; subjective well-being ; job satisfaction …This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying …
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-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …
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macroeconomic forces, domestic and offshore national policies, industry dynamics, and firm-level offshoring capabilities driving … today's offshoring decisions. The analysis exploits findings from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN) project. By taking a … dynamic and multilevel perspective on next-generation offshoring, this paper may inform both firm-level strategies and …
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Recent studies suggest that firms may gain from global sourcing of innovative activities. Yet, only a small number of firms offshore their R&D, design, and engineering tasks. To explain this selection pattern, this paper examines the heterogeneity in total factor productivity among a large group...
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outsourcing and the lowest in foreign vertical integration. We find that robot adopters fragment their production further by … probability of adoption intensifies the effects on outsourcing and weakens the effects on vertical integration. In contrast to …
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“Knowledge transfer” among the business partners of international ventures such as offshore outsourcing or International joint … offshore outsourcing and International Joint venture operations …
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Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing … commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service … delivery options for client firms. Yet, data from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN) suggests that, despite increasing …
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This paper analyzes the off-shoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of … French manufacturing firms that provides detailed information on the off-shoring strategy. The choice of off-shoring modes is …
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This working paper evaluates the validity of available data on and the extent of the impact of offshoring on service … offshoring on employment in the three regions is found to be limited. Correspondingly, developing Asia is unlikely to experience …
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Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors … limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the workforce as affected. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing, similar to other … offshoring and offshore outsourcing, if they go ahead and implement the EU Lisbon Agenda with respect to labor market reforms and …
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