outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The …

organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …

training. Finally, in the non-ICT sector, the common practice of completely outsourcing software programming significantly …

estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … approach takes possible complementarities between IT outsourcing and production input factors into account and further allows … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …

systematischen Überblick über bestehende theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zum Thema IT-Outsourcing und legt dabei einen … Beleg für strategische Komplementarität zwischen verschiedenen Outsourcing-Entscheidungen interpretieren. …This paper analyzes those aspects of IT outsourcing decisions that are related to personnel economics. It offers a …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …