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outsourcing of customer services / Piyush Sharma, Rajiv Mathur, Abhinav Dhawan -- IT offshoring : a German perspective / Michael …. Wang -- Making sense of the sourcing and shoring maze : various outsourcing and offshoring alternatives / Subrata …. Atkins -- Outsourcing and offshoring : issues and impacts on venture capital / Alev M. Efendioglu -- Outsourcing and …
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In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...
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not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …
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This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …
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possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …
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We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
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The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …
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offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …
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- spaghetti bowls as building blocs - whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the multilateralisation of regionalism …
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This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...
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