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Stakeholder Perceptions of Offshoring and Outsourcing: The Role of Embedded Issues

Robertson, Christopher; Lamin, Anna; Livanis, Grigorios - In: Journal of Business Ethics 95 (2010) 2, pp. 167-189

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The process of integration of traditional companies and Internet companies in the context of offshoring and outsourcing activities in Poland, and worldwide

Stepnicka, Nina - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 7 (2011) 1, pp. 223-236

The main point of the thesis is an analysis of modern ways of managing business activity in Poland and over the world, based on cooperation and mutual connections, omitting competition, as one of significant terms of market economy. The reference to considerations of the thesis are examples of...

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Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing

Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate …

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â€˜Monday will never be the same againâ€™: the transformation of employment and work in a public-private partnership

Smith, Andrew - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 1, pp. 95-110

, together with the insourcing, outsourcing and the first ever offshoring of UK Government work to India. …

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Factoryless Goods Producers in the US

Bernard, Andrew B.; Fort, Teresa C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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The back office goes global: exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres

Howcroft, Debra; Richardson, Helen - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 1, pp. 111-127

This article explores a neglected aspect of IT-enabled service work: the back office. The fieldwork study reveals how back office service work has been identified as suitable for ongoing reorganization and reconfiguration as firms respond to the pressures of contemporary capitalism. The article...

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Global value chains in the electronics industry: characteristics, crisis, and upgrading opportunities for firms from developing countries

Sturgeon, Timothy J.; Kawakami, Momoko - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 4 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 120-147

In this paper, we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to study recent trends in the global electronic hardware industry and their implications for upgrading opportunities for firms from developing countries. We identify three key firm level actors – lead firms, contract manufacturers, and...

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Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI

Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …

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Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions

Kokko, Ari; Söderlund, Bengt; Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 234 (2014) 6, pp. 688-721

The global financial crisis has contributed to the redirection of trade towards new markets outside the OECD area, where both demand patterns and the institutional environment differ from those in the OECD. This study provides an empirical examination of the consequences of this shift, based on...

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