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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...
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data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …
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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 …
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outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
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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 …
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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 …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; Productivity …
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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 … Innovation ; Process Innovation ; KIBS ; IT Outsourcing ; ZEW ICT survey …
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This paper analyses the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms' probability of global sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the empirical analysis differentiates between manufacturing...
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In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
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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 …
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