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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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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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The electronics industry in central and eastern Europe:an emerging production location in the alignment ofnetworks perspective

Radošević, Slavo - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the productionof electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global productionnetworks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using networkalignment...

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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>

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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...

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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain is

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Labour Market Effects of International Fragmentation of Production; Evidence from a Survey and Case Studies in the Dutch Industry

Berghuis, Ebel; Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

of this outsourcing of tasks is a major concern, both for the country that outsources tasks and for the country to which … tasks are outsourced. This paper discusses the labour market effects of outsourcing in the Netherlands using a survey … interviews and survey make clear that a major motive for outsourcing is to organise production in such a way that total …

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