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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf Arbeiterflüsse in Deutschland. Während Offshoring die Stabilität von … Beschäftigungsverhältnissen in der verarbeitenden Industrie nicht beeinflusst, geht es einher mit einer Zunahme der Beschäftigungsstabilität im … Dienstleistungssektor. Die Effekte von Offshoring hängen ferner stark vom Alter und der Bildung des einzelnen Arbeitnehmers ab. …
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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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and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and …
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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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impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …
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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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The practice of international trade has evolved from the purchase of final goods of foreign origin to production sharing, now commonly referred to as offshore outsourcing. Due to the nature of direct replacement of domestic tasks with foreign ones, the discussions about offshore outsourcing tend...
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This dissertation consists of three essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay assesses the impact of offshoring on … increased offshoring are found to be substantial even after taking into account losses in specific human capital for workers in …
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and off-shoring often supported by culture change programmes. These changes have resulted in work intensification, have …
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