and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and … and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, BT is taking a strategic approach to outsourcing: this has resulted in a rapid … every outsourcing decision could have major security, legal, regulatory and contractual impacts. It is generally recognised …

outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply labor force teams. The implications of these trends for industries … force or outsourcing that task to a specialist firm. Within a labor market, firms competingfor labor from the same pools …

outsourcing of production. The analyses of these studies are considerably constrained by limitations in the international trade … impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …

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 …

, Offshoring, and Offshore-Outsourcing. Following this conceptualization, primary data from 830 information technology and product … that project organization types that span country boundaries (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) outperform Collocated … (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) compared to all types of domestic project organizations (Collocated Insourcing, Distributed …

efficiencies is by offshoring selected business operations to overseas firms. Such offshoring, however, has generated public … concern and, in some cases, outrage. Angst against offshoring is based on many perceptions, including perceived job losses and … relations problem in justifying their offshoring activities. Yet, no systematic study has investigated why some consumers feel …

beschrieben, die auf eine sehr ungleiche Verteilung von Arbeitslosigkeit über verschiedene Personengruppen hinweg hindeuten … empirical data, indicating very dissimilar durations of unemployment for different groups of individuals. These spells of … unemployment, however, cannot be elucidated via common theoretical explanations. This work continues with the most important aims …

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem … raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected …

relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …