of firms and when firms are only considering outsourcing to domestic suppliers. Firm-level data on Australian …

This paper sheds new light on the forces shaping outsourcing decision by considering a certain form of non-linearity in …

Australian manufacturing. We find that new outsourcing is related to lower net job growth and an increase in work intensity … within the firm. Overall, we find no relationship between unexpectedly high demand and new outsourcing. The inly exception is … for large firms who expect sales to decrease. New outsourcing appears to be related to the firm's overall approach to …

manufacturing. We use the data to distinguish between low-cost-oriented and innovation-oriented outsourcing. Outsourcing without … innovation lowers costs at the expense of damaging the future chances of innovation, while innovation-oriented outsourcing leads … firms that innovate, simultaneously outsourcing increases the probability of future innovation by 4 per cent. Innovation …