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The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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privatization activity appears to be outsourcing. …
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primarily driven by outsourcing from downstream manufacturing _rms. We document that smaller and less innovative manufacturing …
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novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by occupations, which are invariant to outsourcing. We find that the …
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We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …
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both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …
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core functions provided the cost of outsourcing is not too high. In this paper, we build a model to show how contraction in … out to say, India (abroad). We identify the conditions under which switching from pure domestic production to outsourcing …
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