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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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Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes

Manzini, Paola; Ponsatí, Clara - eSocialSciences - 2010

In this paper they study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party involvement. The main finding is that the potential willingness of the stakeholder to...

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Public Sector Performance: A Global Perspective

Ross, Louise - eSocialSciences - 2011

The public sectors of different countries are shaped by many factors, but they share common challenges. Those challenges make public sector performance management more complex than it is in the private sector. The generally simpler environment of the private sector and its efficient evolution of...

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Modifications in Drug Policy 1986

eSocialSciences - 2005

Modifications to Drug Policy 1986

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Pharmaceutical Policy, 2002

eSocialSciences - 2005

Pharmaceutical Policy of 2002 covering issues of pricing, ,marketing, size of market, quality, production, investment, regulatory authority, monitoring, ethical issues

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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

Gang, Ira; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong Su - eSocialSciences - 2012

he caste system â€“ a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy â€“ distinguishes India from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes...

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MTNL: Why the Slow Death?

George, Alex - eSocialSciences - 2012

What is the cause of deteriorating services from MTNL? Suggestions are given to improve its services.

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