The paper investigates empirically the impact that outsourcing strategies have on the labour productivity of firms … cross-section econometric model of the productivity impact of outsourcing is applied to a sample of firms based in the local … kind of outsourced activities, the internationalization of the outsourcing firm and time horizon of the productivity …

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing …, the paper aims at investigating whether the concurrence of TCE and industrial relationships has different outsourcing … correlations between an original outsourcing extent variable, on the one hand, and a number of proxies related to TCE, industrial …

organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing …The paper aims at ‘embedding’ the outsourcing firm by considering it as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an … system in Emilia Romagna (that is, Reggio Emilia). The main result of the paper is that outsourcing decisions are indeed …

The paper investigates the drivers of the outsourcing decisions of firms located in a specific local production system … organizational point of view, and as a production, industrial and innovation unit of analysis. Theoretical correlations between … outsourcing decisions and variables are formulated and tested with respect to a representative cross-section sample of the firms …

The paper investigates empirically the impact that outsourcing strategies have on the labour productivity of firms … cross-section econometric model of the productivity impact of outsourcing is applied to a sample of firms based in the local … kind of outsourced activities, the internationalization of the outsourcing firm and time horizon of the productivity …