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The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring …Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
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engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …
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outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low …
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concerning the nationality of relocating companies, the sectors and foreign locations affected and the job creation/loss impact …
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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 …
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the range of services provided and the whole service sector. Outsourcing is used to adapt to business environment changes …. However, in the scholarly literature, outsourcing of services is analysed as a complementary part of the manufacturing process … - there is a lack of research on outsourcing in service companies. This article analyses the enablers of outsourcing in all …
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I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations … increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …
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