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"Servicification of Manufacturing - Evidence from Swedish Firm and Enterprise Group Level Data"

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2010

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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Build-operate-transfer outsourcing contracts in services : boon or bane to emerging market vendor firms?

Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Petersen, Bent - In: Journal of international management 19 (2013) 3, pp. 220-231

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A learning perspective on the offshoring of advanced services

Ørberg Jensen, Peter D. - In: Journal of international management 15 (2009) 2, pp. 181-193

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Professional and trade associations in a nascent and formative sector of a developing economy : a case study of the NASSCOM effect on the Indian offshoring industry

Kshetri, Nir; Dholakia, Nikhilesh - In: Journal of international management 15 (2009) 2, pp. 225-239

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Effects of partnership quality, talent management, and global mindset on performance of offshore IT service providers in India

Raman, Revti; Chadee, Doreen; Roxas, Banjo; Michailova, … - In: Journal of international management 19 (2013) 4, pp. 333-346

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Investigating investments in agility strategies in overcoming the global financial crisis : the case of Indian IT/BPO offshoring firms

Pereira, Vijay; Budhwar, Pawan S.; Temouri, Yama; … - In: Journal of international management 27 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14

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Firms and skills: The evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Make-or-buy decisions and the manipulability of performance measures

Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2009

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple framework combining contractual incompleteness with the existence of imperfect but contractible performance measures. Contractual incompleteness gives rise to two regimes, identified with make and buy. The performance measure on which...

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On the Cost-vs-Quality Tradeoff in Make-or-Buy Decisions

Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2010

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple two-task principal-agent model. There is a cost-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal faces a dichotomous choice between weak ("make") and strong ("buy") cost-saving incentives for the agent; the dichotomy is due to an...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

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