This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small … firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three … development. We interpret this evidence by means of a cognitive framework related to the activity of information management …

This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small … firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three … development. We interpret this evidence by means of a cognitive framework related to the activity of information management …

analysis of the trade off between positive network effects of division of labor on aggregate productivity and transaction costs …

IS discipline has witnessed significant growth in research on IT in- and out-sourcing. Economic theories inform a large … been obtained. This is done through a review of selected body of outsourcing literature. There is evidence of the impacts … of production costs on outsourcing decisions, while findings with regard to transaction costs are inconclusive. In order …

that the study of information flows is key to explain such phenomena. More precisely, the advantages of outsourcing are due … both to the particular way various types of information, on technology or on market conditions, are shared in the network …Subcontracting and, more generally, productive outsourcing increasingly characterise industrial organisation. The aim …