In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...

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A growing empirical literature indicates that outsourcing can deliver short term cuts in costs but leads to a long term loss of productivity growth. In order to explain this outsourcing productivity paradox, the paper examines the connection between total outsourcing and organisational...