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Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...
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Summary The global financial crisis has contributed to the redirection of trade towards new markets outside the OECD area, where both demand patterns and the institutional environment differ from those in the OECD. This study provides an empirical examination of the consequences of this shift,...
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Offshoring, the process of relocating discrete business functions or processes to foreign locations, is rapidly … expanding. Offshoring integrally links real estate decisions to business strategy, offering corporate real estate (CRE … leadership requires knowledge of the issues, opportunities, challenges and tactics involved in the offshoring process. This paper …
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arrangements, such as group audits and offshoring, are becoming increasingly prevalent in audit practice. However, little …
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Purpose Servitization increases the uncertainty exposure of provider firms due to the operational differences between services and production which is further increased when operations are set in triads. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the uncertainty exposure in servitized triads and...
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of how these affect its management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on the offshoring, capacity expansion …
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Purpose Due to today’s volatile business environment companies have started to establish a better understanding of the total risk/benefit-balance concerning manufacturing location decisions of their component supply. The focus is now much more on comprehensive and strategic supply chain issues...
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Purpose Offshoring has been studied widely in the literature on strategic management and international business …. However, apart from its consideration as an administrative activity, scant attention has been paid to the offshoring of the … outsourcing model of Baron and Kreps (1999) by including the HR offshoring phenomenon and a dynamic perspective. Design …
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Purpose Despite increasing interest in offshoring of knowledge-intensive services, it is still undetermined as to … challenges of capturing value creation, the unique production process of the services, and the impact of offshoring on both value … provider. Research limitations/implications This study contributes to offshoring literature by providing a comprehensive …
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Purpose The last decades have seen manufacturing and services offshoring on the rise, often motivated by low prices and … offshoring/reshoring as part of a conceptual “rightshoring” framework to establish a common terminology and context for the ….g. outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, reshoring), acknowledging that these decisions are embedded in the same context – firms …
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