Topics Labour and Migration Outsourcing and skills an empirical investigation (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer; pp. 15 …-20) Keywords outsourcing, labour, skills, specialization Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States, Asia, USA Topics …

This paper discusses the reasons that drive organizations to interrupt outsourcing, reverse their previous decision … Costs Economics, offer some plausible explanations for reintegration originating from outsourcing failure. These … of outsourcing interruption in industrial maintenance illustrates these different factors. However, some other …

particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the … particularly for processed inputs and parts production are interpreted in a catching-up framework combined with outsourcing High … hypothesis that geographic proximity is important for outsourcing activities. …

In this paper we study the effects of high-tech capital, foreign direct investment flows and outsourcing on demand for … outsourcing we further distinguish the effects of trade and outsourcing on relative wages by different groups of partner countries …. This allows to study the effects of 'inward' outsourcing and foreign direct investment flows to Central and Eastern …

This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts …

still do not have a unified, coherent view of outsourcing. In particular, multiple theoretical perspectives such as … transaction cost economics, industrial organization, and strategy, could explain the outsourcing decision, but the implications of … the various causes of outsourcing, we suggest three different rationales for outsourcing: cost reduction, focusing on core …

outsourcing is more seriously considered than ever, and economic arguments for outsourcing the sales function are compelling. We … outsourcing sales becomes rare. We close with testable propositions about which firms are most likely to break their dependence on …