offshoring strategy on firms. performance. It is based on a survey delivered to a group of 70 final producers, operating in the … the worldwide economy. In this closely knit context, the outsourcing of some of the productive and trade activities abroad … outsourcing to domestic subcontractors and in the 90s transferred much of the previous outsourcing abroad, in countries with low …

This study focuses on the economic, ethical and cultural effects of international outsourcing, particularly in India …. Outsourcing has been castigated in the press for being a domestic job killer in the US. But such a conclusion is one-sided because … it only looks at the job-loss side of the coin. Outsourcing also creates jobs by increasing economic efficiency. Another …

Outsourcing of labor intensive activities challenges the welfare state and undermines the protection of low … results are: (i) Social insurance props up wages, leading to more outsourcing and unskilled unemployment. (ii) Redistribution … from the skilled to the working poor acts as a wage subsidy to unskilled workers, thereby reducing gross wages, outsourcing …

The paper aims at investigating the structural change implications of outsourcing. In trying to bridge the … organizational/industrial and the sectoral/structural analysis of outsourcing, it discusses the rational and the methodological pros … and cons of a "battery" of outsourcing measurements for structural change analysis. Their functioning is then illustrated …

The paper aims at showing why and how outsourcing and structural change analysis could be bridged in order to obtain … by applying a battery of outsourcing measurements to some OECD countries over the '80s and the middle '90s. On the one … hand, standard results - such as the particular UK outsourcing patterns - are confirmed on a more systematic and comparable …

, and sales volume, with and without portal-outsourcing. Specifically, we seek to establish whether the pattern of revenue …

The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate the relative effects of international outsourcing of materials and … material and service outsourcing widen the skilled/unskilled wage gap while ICT capital deepening positively affects real wages …

using data from 120 software outsourcing alliances that, independently, process control, outcome control, and modularity … interactions of alliance control with modularity has significant implications for strategy theory and practice, which are also …

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing …, the paper aims at investigating whether the concurrence of TCE and industrial relationships has different outsourcing … correlations between an original outsourcing extent variable, on the one hand, and a number of proxies related to TCE, industrial …

Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian … business-related services; second, we estimate the main factors underlying the intensity and complexity of KIBS outsourcing …