In this paper I analyze the role of business service offshoring in international cooperation over the recession. In … external restructuring encompass business processes fragmentation and offshoring of services, I also argue – taking into … account historical evidence – that current economic crisis would result in growing service offshoring in business service …

Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms' internationalization choices. However, offshoring also … develop a heterogeneous firm framework with immigrants and offshoring costs, including technology leakage. In the model … about the characteristics of employees, manufacturing firms and their bilateral offshoring. Our results support the …

Using firm-level data on offshoring of Korean manufacturers, the paper examines the relationship between firm … heterogeneity and the probability of adopting offshoring. The results of the paper suggest that firm productivity may not be an … important determinant for Korean firms' offshoring decision. Firm's global sourcing decision may rather depend on other …

light of stated finding, access to lower costs of production is not a sufficient condition for optimality of offshoring … theory shows payout of the future value of labors' annual bonuses at timing of offshoring Pareto dominates payout of bonuses …

Using firm-level data for Italy, we address the employment consequences of international production offshoring. We … concur with previous literature that offshoring firms' individual employment performances are no worse than at matching non-offshoring … firms. However, offshoring might impart negative spillover effects on subcontracting firms, and this indirect effect might …

statistically significant result indicates that FDI causes positive growth in export intensity. On the other hand when we restrict …

This paper examines the various economic issues on offshoring (international outsourcing). It begins with a discussion … offshoring certain stages of production and the advantages of specializing in some input production and engaging in other input … trade. The paper then examines the recent trend in offshoring with emphasis on the rise of IT offshoring and also the …