possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, and platforms. A model illustrates how new … a review of the outsourcing and offshoring literature provides instructive examples of how features of the model will …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of …

Global sourcing is a complex area, and one that managers must get to grips with as business investment in outsourcing …

perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of …