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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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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
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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation: transitions between states and their determinants. A comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries about...
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Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias; Willman, P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...
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The comparative advantage of non-union voice in Britain, 1980-2004
Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Kretschmer, Tobias; Gomez, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This study explains this development by providing a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes. Voice is associated...
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Unions, within-workplace job cuts and job security guarantees
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Using data from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 1998, this paper shows that unionisation increased the probability of within-workplace job cuts and the incidence of job security guarantees. As theory predicts, both are more prevalent among market-sector workplaces with higher union...
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Unions, job reductions and job security guarantees: the experience of British employees
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
A national survey makes it possible to examine employees’ awareness of net overall reductions in the size of the workforce along with their awareness of employer policies that promise ‘no compulsory redundancies’. Differences are investigated between union and nonunion workplaces, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746627
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Labor search and matching in macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
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Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity
Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in response to tougher competition. Since firms are the better at performing … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also … investigate the links between various technological parameters and outsourcing. In particular, I analyze how technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745324
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Off-shoring of business services and de-industrialization: threat or opportunity - and for whom?
Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs...
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