Outsourcing knowledge and innovation activities offer cost savings and superior performance, but can also put a firm …’s unique resources and capabilities at risk. Characterizations of outsourcing as a make-or-buy decision do not fit well with … decisions on knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). KPO is a make-or-ally decision, as firms seek a governance structure that will …

(vertical integration) or outsourced to Southern oligopolistic producers with lower labor costs (outsourcing). In the case where … the final good is only consumed in the North, a CA in the South would optimally appropriate outsourcing rents through …

We investigate the labor market effects of putting bounds to domestic outsourcing in Peru. A series of difference … market effects. Limiting domestic outsourcing increases labor force participation by 1.5 percentage points and employment by … impact on labor formality nor real wages. Our results suggest that a policy of restricting outsourcing does neither destruct …

Outsourcing scholars have used transaction cost economics to explain outsourcing decisions predominantly as a means of … reducing costs and increasing profits. However, mounting empirical observation reveals that outsourcing to suppliers with the … ability to assemble diverse expertise can provide critical strategic benefits to outsourcing firms in terms of the timing and …

outsourcing is one way to reduce the coordination costs that arise in multi-divisional firms. We, also, examine the mechanisms … diversification and outsourcing. We test these propositions using novel micro-data on taxicab and limousine firms from the Economic … that firms use outsourcing to mitigate coordination costs associated with related diversification, particularly when …

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences …