organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. …

sector, the decision made in the past to train apprentices in the new ICT occupations seems to have reduced the current … training. Finally, in the non-ICT sector, the common practice of completely outsourcing software programming significantly …

compete for outsourcing work in the US and Western European markets. The results of the survey are then interpreted in the … IT-Firmen heraus, die ins Spiel kommen, wenn sie um Outsourcing-Verträge konkurrieren. Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage werden …

We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced … participants generally, we conjecture that they may be due to factors specific to the psychology of decision-making in male …

decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … like to make the group decision and the women that do not are no different in terms of how much risk they take for …

genders might interpret the social norms in group decision-making differently. …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

facilitated outsourcing of business services, and that these are complementary activities in production because they allow firms …