employed and thus controlled by MNCs. However, outsourcing audits to third parties creates agency problems that can likewise … implications for auditor performance of four sourcing strategies: insourcing, outsourcing, concurrent sourcing, and rotational …

both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

different measures of IT outsourcing (ITO), the econometric estimations reveal a significant and U-shaped relationship between … results underpin the relevance of ITO for services firms' realisation of process innovation. -- IT outsourcing ; product …

literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process … Innovation ; Process Innovation ; KIBS ; IT Outsourcing ; ZEW ICT survey …

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. -- Labor productivity …