Using survey data from the Offshoring Research Network on offshoring by firms in the United-States (US) and Europe the … paper explores whether preferences for offshoring certain functions, using particular governance modes, and in specific … US and Europe as well as across European countries and concludes that intra-European heterogeneity in offshoring …

of service offshoring operations. It proposes a theoretical framework that explains the choice of using expatriates as a … function of the five main characteristics of offshoring projects: the objectives pursued with offshoring - cost savings … country risks – the inter-firm relationship or the environmental uncertainty to the offshoring firm -, the offshore governance …

intermediates, which is of particular interest in view of the rise of offshoring within global value chains. The estimation strategy …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a … business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour …

&D, product design and engineering services). A logit model is estimated using survey data from the Offshoring Research Network on … offshore implementations initiated by US firms between 1990 and 2006. It relates the probability of offshoring product … in environmental factors. The results show that offshoring of product development is partially explained by the emerging …