manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 … should adjust for such outsourcing, available evidence suggests that KLEMS, the multifactor productivity measure for … manufacturing, does not fully capture the relatively large effects that outsourcing to staffing services has on manufacturing …

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 …

reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether …

outsourcing is estimated, using alternative flexible cost functions. The choice of functional form is apparently not immaterial … Laurent generalized Leontief cost function. Overall, the estimation results show that foreign outsourcing had a significant … and suggests, in line with some recent theoretical models, an ambiguous relationship between outsourcing and labour demand …

This paper examines the accounting profession's self-regulation of internal audit outsourcing services. The question of … accounting profession and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000. Internal audit outsourcing was a factor in the public … the efficacy of self-regulation by the public accounting profession. Self-regulation of internal audit outsourcing remains …

Outsourcing has become a contentious political issue in the US and other rich countries from where jobs are being … outsourced.much of the controversy over outsourcing in the USA is directly linked to the jobs scenario. Does the January 23 Bill …

This paper attempts to explain the phenomenon of outsourcing failure by integrating the Relational View and network … (graph). Upon outsourcing, a subset of nodes is removed from the graph. Transaction costs are incurred as a function of both … pertaining to any single relation. We compare production efficiency and transaction cost effects of three types of outsourcing …

The black-box model of software development outsourcing is prevalent and usually works well. The assumption embedded in …

Why has business outsourcing increased so rapidly over the past decade? The question is important for corporate law … discretion. The location of a firm's borders - and thus the extent of outsourcing - can be viewed as an equilibrium of these … competing effects. The conventional explanation for the rise in business outsourcing is that falling interaction costs have …