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Make-or-buy Decisions and the Manipulability of Performance Measures
Andersson, Fredrik - 2009
The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple framework combining contractual incompleteness with the existence of imperfect but contractible performance measures. Contractual incompleteness gives rise to two regimes, identified with make and buy. The performance measure on which...
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A Trickle-Down Theory of Incentives with Applications to Privatization and Outsourcing
Andersson, Fredrik - 2009
The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a three-layer principal-management-agent model. There is a cost-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal chooses between employing an in-house management and contracting with an independent management; the cost-saving incentives facing...
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Make-or-Buy Decisions in Patent Related Services
Wagner, Stefan - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2006
Recent research argues that the management of intangible assets is a key to firms’ longtermsuccess and requires specialized management techniques and a distinctive set ofskills (Rivette & Kline 2000, Standfield 2002, Granstrand 1999). It is further arguedthat the active management of firms’...
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A trickle-down theory of incentives with application to privatisation and outsourcing
Andersson, Fredrik - 2009
-or-buy decision ; multitask principal-agent problem ; outsourcing …
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Make-or-buy decisions and the manipulability of performance measures
Andersson, Fredrik - 2009
(negative) such externality favors make (buy). -- make-or-buy decision ; manipulation ; outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909555
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Domestic outsourcing in the United States : a research agenda to assess trends and effects on job quality
Bernhardt, Annette; Batt, Rosemary L.; Houseman, Susan N.; … - 2016
The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the … process, we review definitions of outsourcing, the available scant empirical research, and limitations of existing data … predictions about likely impacts on job quality. We then lay out in detail a major research initiative on domestic outsourcing …
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The Value of Relational Contracts in Outsourcing : Evidence from the 2008 Shock to the US Airline Industry
Gil, Ricard - 2018
for performance and long-term profitability. While outsourcing reduces the operating costs of major airlines, it increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926435
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A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring : The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Talent
Manning, Stephan - 2011
The seemingly unlimited availability of science and engineering (Samp;E) talent in emerging economies and the increasing difficulties of finding such talent in advanced economies have given rise to a new trend: the global sourcing of Samp;E talent. This paper examines the antecedents and...
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Relationship-specific investments and intellectual property rights enforcement with heterogeneous suppliers
Naghavi, Alireza; Peng, Shin Kun; Tsai, Yingyi - 2015
outsourcing contract with better technologically-endowed suppliers requires a lower transfer and generates a higher surplus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713743
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Trade, Industrial Structure, and Brand
Chen, Y.-H. Henry - 2018
output was under the foreign outsourcing firms’ brands. This leads to two questions: (i) Why do most subcontractors not …
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