and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm characteristics and ambitions. In …, resource-constrained firms using staged project management are shown to abandon a larger share of their innovation projects and … development on when and why the staging of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms and to the literature on …

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

Innovation ; Process Innovation ; KIBS ; IT Outsourcing ; ZEW ICT survey … 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …