Bakhtiari, Sasan; Breunig, Robert - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2012
manufacturing. We use the data to distinguish between low-cost-oriented and innovation-oriented outsourcing. Outsourcing without … innovation lowers costs at the expense of damaging the future chances of innovation, while innovation-oriented outsourcing leads … firms that innovate, simultaneously outsourcing increases the probability of future innovation by 4 per cent. Innovation …