Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Typically, this search … incomplete specialisation with complete specialisation as a natural limiting case. Results support evidence for offshoring … latest waves of offshoring activities from "old" to "new" EU members may have been more likely to hurt (low-skill) workers in …

not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …

We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …

Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …

that credit unions choose: one is a partial form of outsourcing while the other is more complete. This allows us to …

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …

important aspects of global supply chain relationships: supply chain integration and collaboration; outsourcing and offshoring … customer power on supply chain integration and performance / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 10. Offshoring process / Dmitrij … Slepniov, Brian Waehrens, Hiroshi Katayama -- 11. Impact of strategic outsourcing on operational control / Rob Dekkers -- 12. A …

"This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics …General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos -- A framework for the … management of logistics outsourcing life cycle / Dimitris Folinas -- Contracting for logistics services: a critical appraisal of …