This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. …

organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …

client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The …

harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …

, dass die wichtigsten Faktoren, die russische CEOs in Bezug auf regelmäßige Innovation orchestrieren, das Bewusstsein über …

findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …