innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge … management literature, this conceptual paper explores four interrelated strategic concepts: core competencies, economies of scale …

outsourcing various ‘tasks’ to other sub-contracting regions, in order to utilize lower production cost there. This is modeled as … outsourcing opportunities for the firm are determined by economies ofdiversification. Trade is implicitly reflected as the …

season well underway in the U.S., the "outsourcing" of jobs from the developed to the developing world is again on the public … reaped by outsourcing firms to the outsourced employees themselves. This way the latter are directly benefited by the very …

services in India’s “offshore outsourcing” industry. The dissertation draws upon 101 semi-structured interviews with Indian …

outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply labor force teams. The implications of these trends for industries … force or outsourcing that task to a specialist firm. Within a labor market, firms competingfor labor from the same pools …

The phenomenon of outsourcing has engulfed the accounting industry and offers a wide range of services from bookkeeping … provided by outsourcing facilitators, the level of outsourcing in the accounting industry will increase to allow U.S. firms to …. This research uses a survey to collect primary data focusing on three areas, namely outsourcing drivers, concerns …

of family excess vote holdings and involvement of family management is found to be insignificant. We also find that block …, we examined the issues related to market reaction on IT outsourcing announcement and firm characteristics which induce … firms to outsource. We find that IT outsourcing has a strong positive effect on stock prices of announcing firms, especially …