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outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low …
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Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted...
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stages of development (in the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being … latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation with multinational … enterprises (MNEs). PRC firms have worked with and upgraded within MNEs' value chains within the PRC market, while the Philippines …
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Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the adoption of new or significantly improved technologies in service sector firms. Furthermore, it closes a research gap by analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the...
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