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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297987
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External technology supply and client-side innovation
Peukert, Christian - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307847
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Institutional investment in Central and Eastern Europe: investment criteria of Western portfolio managers
Köke, Jens - 1999
This study provides detailed evidence on the transistion state of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. It draws on data from a survey conducted among portfolio managers of Western investment funds thereby making use of the knowledge of experts in CEE markets. The approach of the study is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297635
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The business firm: the bureaucracy and the clan
Silos, Leonardo R. - 1993
This paper establishes a parallel between Max Weber's bureaucratic and traditional forms of domination, on the one hand, and the distinction between Western and Japanese management, on the other. Just as bureaucracy, so Western management theory and practice have been fundamentally guided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299628
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IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003
organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297336
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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised box-cox function
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297715
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - 2001
training. Finally, in the non-ICT sector, the common practice of completely outsourcing software programming significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297781
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297986
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Fremdvergabe von IT-Dienstleistungen aus personalwirtschaftlicher Sicht
Henkel, Joachim; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298110
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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing: a firm-level investigation based on panel data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299937