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DISCERNING Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Producer Service Establishment Location using Geographic Information Systems
Lindsay, Francis - 2005
The research presented in this dissertation explores the spatial distribution of producer service establishments in the Washington DC area for 1997. Producer services are a distinct and important segment of the US industrial economy. These businesses provide the intermediary goods and services...
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International trade and labour markets
Braun, Sebastian Till - 2010
untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf Arbeiterflüsse in Deutschland. Während Offshoring die Stabilität von … Dienstleistungssektor. Die Effekte von Offshoring hängen ferner stark vom Alter und der Bildung des einzelnen Arbeitnehmers ab. … effect of offshoring on workers'' labour market transitions in Germany. The results suggest that the effects of offshoring …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Case studies on BPO and ITO at large captive operations in India.
Penter, Kevan; Pervan, Graham; Wreford, John - 2008
The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European companies. However, Australian companies have been slower to take advantage of this trend towards Globally Distributed Work (GDW). This appears surprising given sixteen years of...
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Outsourcing: the Security Risk Management Challenge
Colwill, Carl - 2006
and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and …
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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Sector Implications for Dynamics, Growth, and Sustainability
Weaver, Robert D.; Chung, Sung Hoon - 2009
As national economies have integrated through removal of trade barriers, the potential for offshoringproduction was quickly recognized as a strategy to enhance firm performance. At thesame time, labor market reforms opened the door for outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply...
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Trade in intermediate goods: Trends, effects, and determinants
Sitchinava, Nino - 2008
impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …
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Organizing the modern firm through outsourcing and offshoring
Liesch, P. W.; Buckley, P. J.; Simonin, B. L.; Knight, G. - 2009
Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …
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