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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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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment. …

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Outsourcing in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 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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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150134

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208581

Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548033

Outsourcing in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005435961