We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing …. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact …

investment may be useful in driving firms' participation in innovation activity. A number of export-related policies can be …This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation … activities, i.e., foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Incidences of innovation for ten innovation activities are …

foreign investment also tend to engage in more product innovation, but not at the same level as the firms that export …To understand the drivers of product innovation at the firm level, I compare the effects of foreign direct investment … (FDI) and exporting on product innovation using a rich firm level database of manufacturing and industrial enterprises. The …