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General purpose technologies like information technology typically require complementary firm-specific investments to create value. These complementary investments produce a form of capital, which is typically intangible and which we call digital capital. We create an extended firm-level panel...
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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 …
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This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …
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-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …
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