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The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored input with the organizational mode of international production sharing by extending the Antràs...
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Outsourcing Versus Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
country may avail options like – Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country’s choice of … outsourcing in the host country using Grossman-Helpman quality ladders framework. If the host absorptive capacity is above a … threshold level, outsourcing is more welfare enhancing vis-à-vis FDI; while even with lower than threshold absorptive capacity …
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Strategic Orientation of Outsourcing Firms: Demystifying Key Differentiators
Sharda, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Despite the importance of outsourcing firms and the highly competitive nature of the outsourcing industry, there has … been minimal examination of outsourcing firm strategy. This paper investigates the strategic focus of 60 outsourcing firms …. Factor and cluster analysis reveal three outsourcing firm archetypes based on their strategic orientation, namely, super …
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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2007
Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...
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The Impact of Infrastructure on Agricultural Productivity
Llanto, Gilberto M - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure e.g., transportation, energy, and related infrastructure have an adverse impact on agricultural...
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Why Do Governments Lack “Political Will� An Explanation
Karnik, Ajit - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper proposes “lack of political will†as the most important reason why a ruling political party is unable to commit itself to economically efficient choices or policies. The notion of political will is explicated using concepts from the transactioncosts perspective. The paper...
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Transaction Costs and Institutional Innovation: Sustainability of Tank Aquaculture in Sri Lanka
Senaratne, Athula - eSocialSciences - 2007
Freshwater community-based aquaculture was introduce to village irrigation tanks in the dry zones of Sri Lanka in order to off-set the limited supply of animal protein available to residents in inland areas. This paper examines transaction costs associated with the management of community-based...
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Designing Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India
Murty, M.N. - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines the possibility of using economic instruments, especially pollution taxes and bargaining approaches, as a means to encourage or improve people’s participation in environmental management in India. It provides an intuitive description of methods for designing economic...
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Hobbes, Coase and Baliraja: Equity and Equality in Surface Water Distribution
Sivramakrishna, Sashi; Jyotishi, Amalendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487599
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India's Informal Trade With SriLanka
Taneja, Nisha - eSocialSciences - 2007
The study is based on an extensive survey carried out in the Indian cities of Chennai, Trichy, Thiruvananthapuram, Tuticorin, Mumbai and Rameshwaram. Informal trade between India and Sri Lanka is largely a one way trade from India to Sri Lanka and is almost a third of the total value of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341721