Mit dem Outsourcing von Personalfunktionen und -prozessen wird in der Unternehmenspraxis versucht, Kosten- und … Flexibilisierungsvorteile zu generieren. Waehrend die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung zu den Determinanten von Outsourcing …-Aktivitaeten weit vorangeschritten ist, sind empirische Studien zu den Wirkungen von Outsourcing allerdings noch immer selten …

impact of outsourcing on firms' innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the … determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative … Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. -- outsourcing ; product innovation ; process innovation ; average labour …

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing … firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing of production will not result in the outsourcing of … of the sample firms has not been affected by the ongoing outsourcing activities. The empirical observation gives rise to …

We 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 the market outcome even though horizontal outsourcing is the efficient …

influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …