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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified?

Amiti, Mary - 2004

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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Agents of Embeddedness

Azoulay, Pierre - 2003

explored in an in-depth qualitative examination of sourcing practices in drug development. The outsourcing of central … biotechnology firms, I explain why outsourcing deals take the form of embedded relationships in the first setting, and of seemingly …

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Acquiring Knowledge Within and Across Firm Boundaries : Evidence from Clinical Development

Azoulay, Pierre - 2003

Considerable evidence suggests that information is acquired more easily within than across firm boundaries. I explore why this is observed in the setting of clinical development. Since the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical firms have partly contracted out the operational aspects of clinical trials to...

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Global Sourcing

Antràs, Pol - 2003

different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …

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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production

Helpman, Elhanan - 2002

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....

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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

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Does Managerial 'Outsourcing' Reduce Expense Preference Behavior? A Comparison of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Contract-Management in US Hospitals

Carey, Kathleen - 2002

This paper explores potential realization of gains by hospitals that are managed on a day-to-day basis by external organizations under formal contracts. It draws from the incentives literature, which postulates that managers of firms where ownership is separated from control will employ an input...

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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization

Duranton, Gilles - 2002

Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...

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Outsourcing in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …

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