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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations : A Firm-Level Analysis
Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325348
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Outsourcing and technological innovations : a firm-level analysis
Bartel, Ann (contributor); Lach, Saul (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656912
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Productivity Growth and Competition in Spanish Manufacturing Firms : What Has Happened in Recent Years?
Blasco, Agusti Segarra - 2011
domestic markets is positive but when the level of competition is high incentives to invest in innovation and productivity … in internal markets in order to increase the incentives for manufacturing firms to invest in innovation and productivity …This paper addresses the issue of the relationship between productivity and market competition. In comparison to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124645
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Complementarities between product and process innovation and their effects on employment : a firm-level analysis of manufacturing firms in Colombia
Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola - In: International review of applied economics 38 (2024) 1/2, pp. 129-154
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Automation technologies : long-term effects for Spanish industrial firms
Camiña, Ester; Díaz-Chao, Ángel; Torrent-Sellens, Joan - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 151 (2020), pp. 1-20
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Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? : an empirical investigation for four European countries
Ciriaci, Daria; Montresor, Sandro; De Palma, Daniela - 2013
The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …
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Innovation, machine replacement and productivity
Licandro, Omar; Maroto Illera, Reyes; Puch, Luis - 2006
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Product differentiation and process R&D : the trade-off between quality and productivity in the Spanish firm
Llorca-Vivero, Rafael - In: Journal of industry, competition and trade 1 (2001) 2, pp. 181-202
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Beyond technological explanations of employment polarisation in Spain
Sebastian, Raquel; Harrison, Scott - 2017
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in Spain … between 1994 and 2008. Spain has experienced job polarisation over the whole period, with growth at the upper part of the wage … job polarisation, not just in Spain, but possibly globally. …
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