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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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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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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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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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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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The information technology and business process outsourcing industry : diversity and challenges in Asia
Mitra, Raja Mikael - 2013
Some countries and regions have been more successful than others in developing information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low cost, attractive fiscal incentives, and industrial...
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Global sourcing and technical efficiency : a firm-level study on the ICT industry in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Stone, Trudy-Ann - In: Journal of business economics and management 18 (2017) 5, pp. 877-896
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Do we really know that flexible exchange rates facilitate current account adjustment? Some new empirical evidence for CEE countries
Herrmann, Sabine - 2009
This paper examines the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the pace of current account adjustment. The panel data set we refer to includes 11 catching-up countries from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe between 1994 and 2007. The exchange rate regime is measured by a...
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Agglomeration and Growth: Evidence from the Regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Vogel, Johanna - 2012
This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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