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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data
Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071334
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Recovering the sunk costs of R&D: the moulds industry case
Santos, Carlos Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Sunk costs for R&D are an important determinant of the level of innovation in the economy. In this paper I recover them using a Markov equilibrium framework. The contribution is twofold. First, a model of industry dynamics which accounts for selection into R&D, capital accumulation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745785
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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the "technology sourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745644
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125934
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126004
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126438
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D “spills over” between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071197
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Outsourcing and offshoring engineering projects: understanding the value, sourcing models, and coordination practices
Willcocks, Leslie P.; Oshri, Ilan; Kotlarsky, Julia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745387
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Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade
Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical … offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows … conditions are provided). We show that offshoring requires modification of the four HO theorems, so econometricians who ignore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744894
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Do temporary agency workers affect workplace performance?
Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Using nationally representative workplace data we find the use of temporary agency workers (TAW) is positively associated with financial performance in the British private sector and weakly associated with higher sales per employee. However TAW is not associated with value added per employee....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126609