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In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …
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contains a set of theoretical papers on the distributional effects of offshoring. …
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integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides … vertical integration and of offshoring tend to have been more productive ex ante than firms choosing not to do so. This finding …
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We analyze the sourcing strategies of firms active in the Spanish manufacturing sector. We show that firms that select strategies of vertical integration and of foreign sourcing ex post tend to have been more productive, ex ante, than other firms.
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by incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We find that intellectual … property rights (IPRs) and offshoring are different ways for the labor endowment of the South to affect the size of the market … for innovations in the North. Absent offshoring and lacking IPRs in the South - as in China in the early 1980s - an …
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incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …
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In this study, we predict a pattern of offshoring and reshoring over the course of economic development. We achieve … this, by extending Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg’s (2008) model of offshoring in a simple way by assuming that offshoring … country has two opposing effects on offshoring. On the one hand, it increases the wage rate of workers rendering offshoring …
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In this study, we predict a pattern of offshoring and reshoring over the course of economic development. We achieve … this, by extending Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) model of offshoring in a simple way by assuming that offshoring … country has two opposing effects on offshoring. On the one hand, it increases the wage rate of workers rendering offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110020