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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...

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Experience-Based Outsourcing : East Asian Middlemen-Manufacturer in a Triadic Concord

Liu, Bih Jane - 2007

outsourcing, explores its theoretic landscape in a triadic framework, testifies its empirical significance, and sheds light on the …

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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023

Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...

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Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023

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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317645

Sourcing of services and total factor productivity

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric - 2022

goes a long way to explaining both the aggregate trend and the firmlevel fluctuations in services outsourcing growth. Based …This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting …

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Prison Health Care : Is Contracting Out Healthy?

Frech, H. E.; Bedard, Kelly - 2007

U.S. Prison health care has recently been in the news and in the courts. A particular issue is whether prisons should contract out for health care. Contracting out has been growing over the past few decadest. The stated motivation for this change ranges from a desire to improve the prison health...

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Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence

D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2020

Trust between parties should drive the negotiation and design of contract: if parties did not trust each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. principal-agent consulting contracts and a...

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Trust and contracts: Empirical evidence

D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2022

Trust between parties should drive contract design: if parties were suspicious about each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation ex ante to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. consulting contracts and a negative shock to trust...

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Trust and contracts : empirical evidence

D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2020

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