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Outsourcing Potentials and International Tradability of Jobs. Evidence from German Micro-Level Data

Koch, Andreas; Brändle, Tobias - 2013

between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

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Demand uncertainty in skill-based competition

Artinger, Sabrina - 2013

How does demand uncertainty affect entry into skill-based competition? I investigate this question in a market entry experiment with skill-based payoffs by systematically varying two key elements of the market environment: demand risk and expected market size. Results show that people's...

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Multitasking and the Benefits of Objective Performance Measurement - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sliwka, Dirk; Manthei, Kathrin - 2013

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers allocated bonuses to their employees based on subjective...

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Trade, Technologies and the Talent Organization

Schymik, Jan - 2013

This paper introduces the theory of firm organization under moral hazard into an equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous talents and technologies. The model is able to explain how the allocation of power and the provision of financial incentives inside firms varies within and...

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The Institutional Setting of Multinational Corporations in Bulgaria: an Empirical Survey

Todorova, Tamara; Yackimova, Ivona - 2001

In the process of transition of Central and East European countries (CEEC) to a market economy the critical importance of multinational corporations is growing in view of the fact that the former socialist economies have to reintegrate into the global economy and that multinational firms are the...

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The Role of Wholesalers in International Distribution: Transaction Cost Effects

Todorova, Tamara; Iliev, Ivan - 1999

The paper focuses on the role of wholesaling in the establishment of international distribution channels with respect to the transaction costs associated with the sale of goods on the international market. The first part of the paper is devoted to the peculiarities and conditions of the domestic...

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Developing Communication Technologies and Transaction Costs: A Note

Todorova, Tamara - 1999

The paper discusses the role of communication technologies in reducing the costs of using market exchange. It analyzes the comparative effect of new technologies on transactions which take place within and outside the firm using Coase’s postulate of the size of the firm. Technologically...

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To Choose or Not to Choose: Contracts, Reference Points, Reciprocity, and Signaling

Erlei, Mathias; Reinhold, Christian - 2010

Hart and Moore (2008) argue that varying degrees of flexibility in contracts induce differing reference points and aspiration levels for parties' shares of a transactions total surplus. As a consequence, a trade-off between adaptational flexibility and the prevention of distributional conflicts...

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Regional importance of Mittelstand firms and innovation performance

Berlemann, Michael; Jahn, Vera - 2015

Despite of the deeply rooted belief of politicians from all over the world in the important role of Mittelstand firms, there has been surprisingly little empirical research on this issue, yet. This article contributes to the literature by studying whether the relative regional importance of...

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Bounded rationality as an essential component of the holdup problem

Erlei, Mathias; Roß, Wiebke - 2015

We provide experimental evidence for the hypothesis that bounded rationality is an important element of the theory of the firm. We implement a simplified version of a mechanism designed to perfectly solve the holdup problem under conditions of perfect rationality (Maskin 2002). We test whether...

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