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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm’s Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2007
Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm's decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm's governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity of...
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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
suppliers, who can afford to use the latest technology, becomes relatively cheaper.The predictions of the model are tested using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360607
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Risiken infolge von Technologie-Outsourcing?
Stephan, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
Ein großer Anteil der multinational tätigen Großunternehmen ist in technologieintensiven, dynamischen Branchen tätig und verfügt über ein breites Spektrum an technologischen Ressourcen. In den vergangenen Dekaden hat ein Großteil dieser Unternehmen zunehmend Wertschöpfungsleistungen an...
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Tax compliance costs : a business administration perspective
Eichfelder, Sebastian; Schorn, Michael - 2009
technology, simplified cash accounting or outsourcing compliance activities to tax advisers, private businesses have a set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825011
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
suppliers, who can afford to use the latest technology, becomes relatively cheaper. The predictions of the model are tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932479
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The industrial organisation of the dance industry in the Netherlands : a transaction cost perspective on hybrid forms of organisation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Joustra, Jelle - 2014 - Version June 2014
The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order to respond quickly to the new trends and needs, innovative forms of cooperation between producers are to be set up for the organization of exciting new events. A case study on...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
investment in manufacturing. It examines in particular the role played by logistics infrastructure and processes in the selection … by investors of particular locations for investment in manufacturing. The paper also lists out other shortcomings in the … domestic investment environment that have made India less attractive for foreign as well as domestic investors in comparison …
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Outsourcing in contests
Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2006
We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing increases competition between the contestants, leading...
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The Italian Firms between Crisis and the New Globalization
Accetturo, Antonio - 2011
This paper analyzes the characteristics of Italian firms involved in global value chains (“intermediate” firms) by using the Bank of Italy survey on industrial companies. Intermediate firms show, on average, worse features than “final” firms: smaller size, lower share of white collars,...
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Outsourcing with Long Term Contracts : Capital Structure and Product Market Competition Effects
Teixeira, João C. A. - 2014
This paper analyzes how capital structure and product market competition affect the firms' strategic choice between outsourcing with long term contracts and outsourcing to the spot market. When outsourcing to the spot market firms are exposed to price uncertainty, whereas a long term contract...
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