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The paper present a review of information system usability assurance approaches. The author describes a historical development of software production models and divides them into two main groups. The first one, named classical, included fundamental computer program life cycles derived from...
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. Für die Strukturierung der Nachfrageseite für netzbasierte Dienste werden die Theorien der Auslagerung (Outsourcing) von … communication policy. For ASP demand, theories of outsourcing of information technologies, methods and instruments of cost …-and-utility-measuring and the theory of transaction phases of outsourcing are used. The basis for both supply-side and demand-side evaluations …
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This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors … labor market turnover. Increases in imports, terms of trade and, especially, in the outsourcing share negatively affect the …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
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Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments in information technology and outsourcing … parts of the accounting process to vendors in other parts of the world. Offshore outsourcing of accounting presents some … concerned with the potential for an outsourcing partner's opportunistic behaviour. Drawing on multiple case studies of global …
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The authors characterize equilibrium and efficient modes of production by comparing nested (vertical) outsourcing with … horizontal outsourcing. Nested outsourcing is found to be inefficient unless the cost of monitoring outsourced production lines … market failure in which nested outsourcing is selected when the case dictates that horizontal outsourcing is the efficient …
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between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …
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organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the indirect … outsourcing of the less important supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …
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organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the indirect … outsourcing of the less important supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …
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