find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …. This can be explained by the different feedback effect of labor productivity on training and by the different type of …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … innovative productivity than non-acquiring firms do. Thus, this study provides evidence on complementarity between internal and … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external …

bolster skills training and human capital formation initiatives, further incentivizing in-house training, to support the …

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

between management practices and firm productivity, and to examine whether human capital intensity acts as a moderator … variable for this relationship. A comparison of how well different models predict productivity from management practices and … of the management-productivity relationship. Accounting for the interaction, a 10 percent increase in the FMOP management …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; Productivity … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity … ; domestic outsourcing ; productivity …

This empirical paper examines an impact of materials and services outsourcing on labour costs in two groups: industrial … econometric model showed that Polish industrial and construction, and service enterprises applied both types of outsourcing, but … services outsourcing had more important effect on labour costs than materials outsourcing. However, the depreciation cost …

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …