globalization process with particular reference to outsourcing/offshoring, to the ‘second unbundling’ and to the rise of an … al processo di outsourcing/offshoring, al fenomeno noto come “secondo spacchettamento” e allo sviluppo di un mercato …

dimensions of firms' outsourcing. Based on a large survey of manufacturing firms in Lombardy, Italy, the analysis shows that …Cusmano L., Mancusi M. L. and Morrison A. Globalization of production and innovation: how outsourcing is reshaping an … outsourcing is remarkably wide across sectors and has a clear regional dimension, concerning highly skilled firms at most …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …

We combine new information technology (IT) offshoring and IT workforce microdata to investigate how the use of IT … outsourcing, and whether firms choose to build or buy software. Instrumental variables and corroborating regressions suggest that …

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

offshoring and international trade. …