Materialeffizienz ist für Unternehmen ein wichtiges Thema. Zur Senkung von Kosten und Kostenrisiken, aber auch aus Gründen des Umweltschutzes bemühen sie sich, ihren Materialeinsatz zu verbessern. Sie stoßen dabei auf Hemmnisse beispielsweise finanzieller Art. Unterstützungen der...

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing the dovetailing of operations between two neither...

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at...

The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on...