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Welfare effects of outsourcing in duopolistic markets
König, Jan - 2010
This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in a duopolistic market. Due to different costs of integrated production and outsourcing, the choice of a firm influences the strategy of the competitor via the output price. Therefore, the resulting market constellation depends...
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Outsourcing motives, competitiveness and taxation
König, Jan - 2010
This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in an oligopolistic market, if outsourcing is attractive because of fixed cost savings. We show that outsourcing decisions are strategic substitutes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that due to decreasing individual output,...
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The effect of investing abroad on investment at home : on the role of technology, tax savings, and internal capital markets
Goldbach, Stefan; Nagengast, Arne J.; Steinmüller, Elias; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between foreign and domestic investment activity of multinational enterprises. The … investment in fixed assets. The empirical approach, which rests upon extensive and intensive margin variation, is shown to … produce very robust results. These suggest a positive relationship between foreign and home investment in real capital. This …
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Teamwork as a self-disciplining device
Fahn, Matthias; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2017
We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. If individuals have present-biased preferences, effort that is costly today but rewarded at some later point in time is too low from the perspective of an individual's long-run self. If...
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Mass customization with additive manufacturing : blessing or curse for society?
Schwierzy, Julian; Wenzel, Tobias - 2024
increases total surplus. However, it can be detrimental for consumer surplus if the competitive advantage of AM technology is … complementary measures of ensuring the competitive environment for firms with AM technology and subsidizing their fixed cost in …
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Insourcing vs outsourcing in vertical structure
Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2024
We study an agency model with vertical hierarchy - the principal, the prime-agent and the sub-agent. The principal faces a project that needs both agents' services. Due to costly communication, the principal receives a report only from the prime-agent, who receives a report from the sub-agent....
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Foreclosure and profit shifting with partial vertical ownership
Hunold, Matthias; Petrishcheva, Vasilisa - 2024
We demonstrate how the incentives of firms that partially own their suppliers or customers to foreclose rivals depend on how the partial owner can extract profits from the target. Compared to a fully vertically integrated firm, a partial owner may obtain only a share of the target's profit but...
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Assessment of German-Pakistani relations in trade, investment and strategic cooperation
Mahmood, Talat - 2014
investment relations over the last decade show only very moderate volumes with room for expansion. These dynamics are mirrored in …
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Truly standard-essential patents? : a semantics-based analysis
Brachtendorf, Lorenz; Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2020
Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have become a key element of technical coordination in standard-setting organizations. Yet, in many cases, it remains unclear whether a declared SEP is truly standard-essential. To date, there is no automated procedure that allows for a scalable and objective...
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Two to tango? : psychological contract breach in online labor markets
Claussen, Jörg; Kretschmer, Tobias; Khashabi, Pooyan; … - 2020
Despite some advantages over traditional (offline) labor markets - such as lower search costs, better matching and improved monitoring - online labor markets (OLMs) have not taken off as initially expected. In this paper, we study the factors that limit perceived project success on OLMs. Using...
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