the range of services provided and the whole service sector. Outsourcing is used to adapt to business environment changes …. However, in the scholarly literature, outsourcing of services is analysed as a complementary part of the manufacturing process … - there is a lack of research on outsourcing in service companies. This article analyses the enablers of outsourcing in all …

I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations … increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

firm-specific input suppliers when the final goods producers undertake complete outsourcing or bi-sourcing. Under complete … outsourcing, the final goods producers locate closer as the distance between the input suppliers decreases, but the distance … the final goods producers, and creates effects which are opposite to those under complete outsourcing. Thus, our results …

This paper argues that indices of (business) service and material offshoring built on sectoral input-output data may … input-output tables of 21 European countries from 1995 to 2006, we show that in the case of service offshoring, in most …, in the case of material offshoring there is evidence that foreign suppliers have substituted domestic ones. However, this …