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Outsourcing and offshoring of businessservices: how important is ICT?

Griffith, Rachel; Abramovsky, Laura - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

This paper considers the impact that information and communicationtechnology (ICT) has on firms’ choices over organisational form. In particular,the decision over whether to produce in-house or outsource services,and the decision over the location of activity. ICT reduces the transactionand...

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Offshoring of Business Servicesand its Impact on the UK Economy

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel; Sako, Mari - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2004

This Briefing Note considers recent trends in specialisation, outsourcing and offshoring of businessservices … activities out of the back office of a factory, and into a specialised payroll office.Outsourcing is specialisation outside the … firm. This occurs when firms opt to ‘buy’ rather than ‘make’ inhouse.Outsourcing involves greater specialisation as firms …

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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...

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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services : how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 4 (2006) 2/3, pp. 594-601

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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services : how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura (contributor); … - 2005

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Outsourcing and Offshoring of Business Services : How Important is ICT?

Griffith, Rachel - 2008

This paper considers the impact that information and communication technology (ICT) has on firms' choices over organisational form. In particular, the decision over whether to produce in-house or outsource services, and the decision over the location of activity. ICT reduces the transaction and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722516

ICT, corporate restructuring and productivity

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - 2009

facilitated outsourcing of business services, and that these are complementary activities in production because they allow firms …

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Innovation in China: the rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011

<p><p>In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...</p></p>

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Offshoring high-skilled jobs: EU multinationals and domestic employment of inventors

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-skilled employment in headquarter countries. We estimate of the impact offshoring inventors has on firms' use of inventors at home using …

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Innovation in China: The rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - 2011

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331029