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This paper combines the features of outsourcing theory, the principal-agent model and institutional economics, and …
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Austrian foreign direct investment (FDI) increased quickly since 1992. The profitability of these investments did improve over the full period under consideration (1992 to 2005). In particular investments in Central and Eastern Europe became rather profitable. In 2005 total annual profits...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on microelectronics trends in the consumer goods sector of the electronics industry and the impact on world employment, trade and the international division of labour - explains the functions of subcontracting and export processing zones, and protectionism; makes a...
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Australia has been at the forefront of the adoption of outsourcing as a means for delivering IT services, but the … success of IT outsourcing in Australia has been mixed. With two hundred and forty one responses from the top 1000 IT users in … the country, the survey reported in this paper is one of the largest and most representative IT outsourcing studies in the …
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This study analyses the motives and results of outsourcing. According to the results, companies have pursued … outsourcing for a variety of reasons. Cost savings are the major driving force behind the outsourcing of production function …. Increased flexibility, focusing and additional capacity are other important motives. In most cases, R&D outsourcing is driven by …
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