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This paper shows how the emergence of open standards has created large numbers of entrepreneurial opportunities in the semiconductor industry by enabling vertical specialization. Integrating data on firms and technology evolution, we find a gradual increase in the percentage of firms represented...
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Resource Outsourcing is one such area, which includes outsourcing of administrative tasks such as payroll, benefits, education …/training, recruiting personnel and administration. Through Human Resource Outsourcing, not only costs can be reduced but also an easy … examine the present position, the potential opportunities of HR Outsourcing in India and how it can be used as a tool for …
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In this paper an attempt has been made to study how and why the outsourcing have started moving up the value chain. An … explicit distinction has been made between Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). Findings … indicate that, after demonstrating its success in information technology, outsourcing has started moving up the knowledge …
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We show that economies of scale in upstream production can lead both the disintegrated downstream firm as well as its vertically integrated rival to outsource offshore for intermediate goods, even if offshore production has a moderate cost disadvantage compared to in‐house production of the...
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Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new …
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This paper analyses the partnership-based outsourcing model of service transformation in USA local government, focusing … on the city of Sandy Springs which became widely known for its large-scale 'turnkey' outsourcing of provision of its … which to reassess Sandy Springs’ use of turnkey outsourcing to achieve significant cost savings and improve services. The …
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Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...
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The engineering industry of Rajkot represents the towering ambition of India’s economic might. Industry is spread across a 20-mile industrial belt, and is home to more than 3,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs); employing 100,000 people and generating an annual turnover of Indian Rupees...
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either to internally integrate a function to make inputs or to contract out to buy inputs from an independent supplier. In …
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Since 2000 the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states has been governed through the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This article complements existing research that focuses on Brussels-based stakeholders with an analysis drawing on the...
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