We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of … outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of … activities. We distinguish outsourcing of materials from outsourcing of services inputs. We find that plants that are …

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services … change when firms outsource online due to access and competition effects. Using data for 99 firms who started outsourcing … online in 2003 together with a control group (never outsourcing online) of over 682 Irish firms, we apply OLS and Propensity …

We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of … outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of … activities. We distinguish outsourcing of materials from outsourcing of services inputs. We find that plants that are …