an intermediate component in-house or purchasing it from a domestic supplier. We model outsourcing as a bilateral …’ incentive to outsource. Consumer gains from trade liberalisation are enhanced when it leads to less outsourcing. …

We analyse decisions of firms on outsourcing of intermediate goods and R&D investment. If firms choose in … show that in outsourcing, all firms outsource to the same specialist to minimise the possibility of successful imitation in …

This paper examines the impact of gravity on outsourcing. We derive a gravity equation from the classical spatial … recognition of interdependencies in spatial choice. Thus, we include a variable to explain the spatial structure of outsourcing … demand function than for the deterministic gravity model. The model shows that outsourcing is carried out mostly because of …

R\&D firms and relate their share of R&D outsourcing to universities to the composition of their R&D units, described by …

foreign direct investment (FDI) and international outsourcing. We find that stronger IPR protection in the South raises the … extent of outsourcing and reduces the extent of FDI. This raises the proportion of Southerners being unskilled and mitigates …

We construct a model to show that outsourcing of a crucial input can occur even though it can be produced in-house at a … differentiation is small or the technological gap between two input producing firms is small, strategic outsourcing will occur …. Technology transfer in the form of patent sale will act as a commitment that the firm will outsource. While the outsourcing firm …

(HR) Outsourcing in the Pharmaceutical sector. The specific objective is to find out that how important is HRM for an … Organization to perform its operations more efficiently, and at what level Human Resource Outsourcing is affecting it. Literature … review: Literature review shows that HR outsourcing has positive impact on HRM for an Organization to perform its operations …

IT outsourcing is the practice of contracting out the running of a part of an organization computer department. It is … fact that IT outsourcing has no obviously and quantifiable benefits, most of the business entities choose not to do … this research regards the layout of the current approaches to outsourcing, description of different types of IT outsourcing …