motive for outsourcing supply (or distribution) in the face of market risk. …

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

organizational choice between direct investment and outsourcing. Although it raises tax revenue and welfare in the headquarter …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …