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Outsourcing, Offshoring - Service Offshoring: Bane or Boon and What to Do?
Brainard, Lael; Litan, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 2, pp. 3-7
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Outsourcing a Two-Level Service Process
Lee, Hsiao-Hui; Pinker, Edieal J.; Shumsky, Robert A. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 8, pp. 1569-1584
This paper studies outsourcing decisions for a two-level service process in which the first level serves as a … influence the client's optimal outsourcing option. <i>This paper was accepted by Martin Lariviere, operations management.</i> …
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The demand of business services in Spain
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Diego; Merino de Lucas, Fernando - Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y … - 2001
The growth in the outsourcing of services has become one of the most relevant features of the changes in manufacturing … firms’ behaviour. This paper provides empirical evidence about the extent and evolution of services outsourcing by Spanish … manufacturing firms in 1990-1998. A general increase in outsourcing of services has been detected among firms in this period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010855143
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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?
Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005811406
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Impact of Support Services on End-users’ Satisfaction
VANDAELE, D.; GEMMEL, P. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2005
Research paper<br> Purpose<br> Despite the increased outsourcing of support services and their growing impact on the … organization. Therefore, the selection of an outsourcing partner should include more aspects than just price; the opinion of the …
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What Do Census Data Tell Us About Headquarters Location?
Ono, Yukako - In: Economic Development Quarterly 20 (2006) 2, pp. 129-141
This article provides insight into several topics that are closely linked with firms’ decisions on headquarters location. Reviewing previous studies, the author examines characteristics of firms that have stand-alone headquarters and compares them with the characteristics of firms that...
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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The Use of Cost Information in Frozen Food Logistics
Durak, Mustafa Gürol; Ünverdi, İdil - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 5 (2014) 4, pp. 19-41
logistics operations with the companies’ own resources and using outsourcing services. Results show that carrying out the … logistics activities by outsourcing provides a medium sized enterprise a more flexible logistics service with less cost and … this point of view, logistics industry plays a vital role in providing efficiency in economic activities. When logistics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991056
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ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СУЩНОСТИ ЛОГИСТИЧЕСКОГО АУТСОРСИНГА КАК ФАКТОРА ЭФФЕКТИВНОГО ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННЫХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ...
АНАТОЛЬЕВНА, БЕЛОВОДСКАЯ ЕЛЕНА; … - In: Бизнес Информ (2014) 3, pp. 485-489
Цель статьи заключается в анализе и систематизации основных подходов к раскрытию сущности понятия «аутсорсинг», установлении соответствия существующих...
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ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СУЩНОСТИ АУТСОРСИНГА ЛОГИСТИЧЕСКИХ ФУНКЦИЙ ПРОМЫШЛЕННОГО ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ
ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ, ЗЕЛЕНСКИЙ МАКСИМ - In: Бизнес Информ (2014) 3, pp. 241-247
Цель статьи заключается в исследовании сущности аутсорсинга и обобщении существующих подходов к классификации видов аутсорсинга, а также в выделении и...
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