We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …. -- Offshoring ; heterogeneous inputs ; uncertainty ; price ; transportation costs …

multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- International trade ; services ; off-shoring …

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services … change when firms outsource online due to access and competition effects. Using data for 99 firms who started outsourcing … online in 2003 together with a control group (never outsourcing online) of over 682 Irish firms, we apply OLS and Propensity …

procurement increases international services outsourcing by between 1.6 and 2.5 percent for the FE and D-in-D matching estimators …. Although no existing work has yet reported effects for international materials outsourcing we find that Web procurement … decreases international materials outsourcing by between 2.2 and 3.7 percent. -- International outsourcing ; heterogeneous …