between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …

are strongly regionally embedded and that offshoring is still a limited phenomenon. Outsourcing strategies are shown to …The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the … probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes …

are strongly regionally embedded and that offshoring is still a limited phenomenon. Outsourcing strategies are shown to …The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the … probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes …

Neither the literature on outsourcing nor the literature on the impact of information technology (IT) have previously … quantified the effects of IT outsourcing. This is a particularly important omission in India, which has an IT outsourcing … econometric evidence which shows that there is a strong positive impact of IT outsourcing on output and productivity in India. It …

incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income … offshoring and the direction of technological progress. A fall in the cost of offshoring induces technical change with an … ambiguous factor bias. When the initial offshoring cost is high, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition …