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

Deutschland. Datengrundlage ist eine repräsentative telefongestützte (CATI) Umfrage von 4150 Unternehmen für das Jahr 2000. Die … 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 …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our …

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 …

literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process …