of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring … the manufacturing and service sectors offshore outsourcing of services has a positive effect on employment. In addition it … depends on the offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment …

of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … out to be complementary. In the service sector, it is in the first place offshore outsourcing of R&D that has a …

This paper tackles the question of whether the risks inherent in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) differ … significantly from the risks of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), and subsequently investigates which are the most salient …

strategy of outsourcing of many growing tasks that is currently pursued by farmers to overcome the problems posed by a …

producing it in a wholly owned subsidiary or outsourcing it to a supplier who must make a relationship-specific investment …

The paper investigates the drivers of the outsourcing decisions of firms located in a specific local production system … outsourcing decisions and variables are formulated and tested with respect to a representative cross-section sample of the firms … investigated, transaction costs do not seem to be a significant driver of outsourcing. The decision to externalize is rather driven …

a wide range of partnerships arrangements, such as: outsourcing, joint ventures, concessions, sales of equity stakes in …

In this paper we argue that an important source of the recent increase in outsourcing is the computer and information … technological change increases outsourcing because it allows firms to use services based on leading edge technologies without … outsourcing costs of IT-based services generating a positive correlation between the IT level of the user and its outsourcing …