Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …

estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

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 …