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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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ICT and global sourcing : evidence for German manufacturing and service firms

Rasel, Fabienne - 2015

This paper analyses the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms' probability of global sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the empirical analysis differentiates between manufacturing...

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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry : a comparison between Germany and the U.S.

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

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Fremdvergabe von IT-Dienstleistungen aus personalwirtschaftlicher Sicht

Henkel, Joachim; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003

systematischen Überblick über bestehende theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zum Thema IT-Outsourcing und legt dabei einen … Beleg für strategische Komplementarität zwischen verschiedenen Outsourcing-Entscheidungen interpretieren. …This paper analyzes those aspects of IT outsourcing decisions that are related to personnel economics. It offers a …

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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?

Falk, Martin - 2001

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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing : a firm-level investigation based on panel data

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009

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

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External technology supply and client-side innovation

Peukert, Christian - 2011

literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process … Innovation ; Process Innovation ; KIBS ; IT Outsourcing ; ZEW ICT survey …

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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010

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 …

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