Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,583
Cover Image
Neues von der Basarökonomie
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 06, pp. 17-28
Daten zur Produktionsstruktur der Welt, die aus Input-Output-Tabellen entnommen werden, zeigen, dass der ausländische Wertschöpfungsanteil, der in deutschen Exporten steckt, zwischen 1995 und 2008 von 13,5 auf 20% gestiegen ist. Somit ist für Deutschland der langfristige Trend zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633254
Cover Image
Global Software Development: Commitment, Trust and Cultural Sensitivity in Strategic Partnerships
Søderberg, Anne-Marie; Krishna, S.; Bjørn, Pernille - In: Journal of International Management 19 (2013) 4, pp. 347-361
Much research has studied off-shore outsourcing from a Western client perspective. This article tries to shed light on … what an Indian vendor perceives as important to manage large and complex strategic partnerships in IT outsourcing, and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011047554
Cover Image
Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889981
Cover Image
Outsourcing, occupational restructuring, and employee well-being: Is there a silver lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987191
Cover Image
Now IT's Personal: Offshoring and the Shifting Skill Composition of the U.S. Information Technology Workforce
Tambe, Prasanna; Hitt, Lorin M. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 4, pp. 678-695
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990575
Cover Image
New Faces of Globalization: Market Integration, Production Disintegration, Genesis of New Global Organizational Structures for Production and Trade
Pencea, Sarmiza - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 2 (2010) 3
Due to trade liberalisation and ITC revolution, companies could imagine new and better ways of creating and delivering value. In search of higher efficiency, competitiveness and profits, they reorganise, choosing to focus on their core competencies and to globally outsource, or offshore non-core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878474
Cover Image
Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884090
Cover Image
Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886993
Cover Image
The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing
Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009
offshoring and international trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941119
Cover Image
Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956712