procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing …, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …

Formulating a model comprising transportation, uncertainty and price, we describe how Web procurement is likely to … procurement increases international services outsourcing by between 1.6 and 2.5 percent for the FE and D-in-D matching estimators …. Although no existing work has yet reported effects for international materials outsourcing we find that Web procurement …