Using survey data from the Offshoring Research Network on offshoring by firms in the United-States (US) and Europe the … paper explores whether preferences for offshoring certain functions, using particular governance modes, and in specific … US and Europe as well as across European countries and concludes that intra-European heterogeneity in offshoring …

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

of service offshoring operations. It proposes a theoretical framework that explains the choice of using expatriates as a … function of the five main characteristics of offshoring projects: the objectives pursued with offshoring - cost savings … country risks – the inter-firm relationship or the environmental uncertainty to the offshoring firm -, the offshore governance …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the … labour demand in the importcompeting sectors or activities. Offshoring of services has a relatively strong positive marginal … impact on labour productivity, but the scale of offshoring is still modest. The labour market impact of offshoring is …

&D, product design and engineering services). A logit model is estimated using survey data from the Offshoring Research Network on … offshore implementations initiated by US firms between 1990 and 2006. It relates the probability of offshoring product … in environmental factors. The results show that offshoring of product development is partially explained by the emerging …

intermediates, which is of particular interest in view of the rise of offshoring within global value chains. The estimation strategy …