It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to …

activities. The result of this is that outsourcing has contributed to an increase in the strategic impact of purchasing … departements. This article builds on the reasoning that the outsourcing process belongs to the purchasing departments themselves …. Two fundamental questions are asked: What purchases should be covered by outsourcing? Which activities, internal to the …

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

Outsourcing is one of the main origins of firm's shrinkage. Outsourcing strategy can be defined as the purchase of a … consequences of outsourcing ? Transaction Cost Theory (TCT) and Resource Based View (RBV) literature are the main theories … mobilized to understand outsourcing strategy. We present the case study of a French company that outsourcized most of its …

is to understand why some firms renegotiate their outsourcing contracts. The relationship between the age of the … outsourcing contract and the number of renegotiations is straightforward. Older contracts are more likely to require adjustments … examined. This paper finds that the positive relationship between the age of outsourcing contracts and the number of …

, Japan and the United States engaged in outsourcing of relatively labor intensive segments of the value chain, especially on …