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Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in the global services offshoring market: evidence from trade statistics
Gál, Zoltán - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the six … additional factors favouring nearshoring (as in CEE locations) over offshoring (e.g. India) and lists several factors besides …
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Stand und Perspektiven der "New Economy" in ausgewählten Mitgliedstaaten der EU aus deutscher Sicht
Vieweg, Hans-Günther; Fuchs, Thomas; Hild, Reinhard; … - 2005
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im ifo Arbeitsbereich Branchenforschung erstellt und im Frühjahr 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit. Gegenstand der Studie sind der Stand und die Perspektiven der „New Economy“ in Deutschland sowie ein Vergleich...
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The Fall and Rise of the Norwegian IT Industry in the Global Age, 1970-2005
Sogner, Knut - 2014
Although Norway's information-technology (IT) industry has never been an international success, it has been a critical factor in the country's economy over the past thirty years. Several IT companies came close to reaching a global scale, but escalating costs finally prevented them from doing...
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Is More Offshoring Better? An Exploratory Study of Western Companies Offshoring It-Enabled Services to S.E. Asia
Bhalla, A.; Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Son, Byung-Gak - 2006
We explore the link between a company's performance and the extent of its offshoring of IT-enabled services, focusing … sales/employee over 1999-2004. To measure offshoring, we consider the extent to which these companies have offshored (1 … processing, and (3) call centers. We performed cluster analysis using the three corresponding offshoring variables to obtain …
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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Trade in ideas : outsourcing and knowledge spillovers
Benz, Sebastian; Larch, Mario; Zimmer, Markus - 2014
Inspired by the theory of variety-expanding product innovation we derive a testable relationship of outsourcing on the growth rate of knowledge. We estimate this relationship with a firm-level dataset, which is a unique match of PATSTAT patent data and the Amadeus dataset. We find evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242071
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Offshoring to new shores: Nearshoring to Central and Eastern Europe
Meyer, Thomas - 2006
Offshoring of IT services and back-office services to low-wage countries is a fast-growing market. Besides India, the … offshoring locations. Our report focuses on nearshoring locations in Central and Eastern Europe. An increasing number of examples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015243749
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Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector
Ye, Zhen (Peter); Yin, Ya Ping - 2012
This paper adopts the industrial capabilities argument and the concept of revealed comparative advantage as the basis for evaluating the competitiveness of the UK creative industries in sustaining export growth. The empirical results have revealed a heterogeneous nature of the economic linkages...
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Outsourcing of information technology and business processes in Poland : motivations and environmental factors
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Kedziora, Damian - In: Managing global transitions : international research journal 16 (2018) 4, pp. 307-333
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