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Kormancová, Gabriela - In: Ekonomika a managment 2013 (2013) 3, pp. 27-36

This paper deals with the outsourcing in project management. We present the results of own survey, which highlights the … use of outsourcing in project management in selected Slovak companies. We try to analyse the impact of outsourcing on the …

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Comparison of the attractiveness of selected countries form the international outsourcing point of view

Tyll, Ladislav - In: Ekonomika a managment 2008 (2008) 3

This paper presents the research results of the attractiveness of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, China and India as countries suitable for searching for outsurcing services providers. The research was carried out from both the Britisch copany and the Czech copany point of view. Country...

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Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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 …

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Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

Chen, Yongmin; Horstmann, Ignatius J; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

There exist two approaches in the literature concerning the multinational firm's mode choice for foreign production between an owned subsidiary and a licensing contract. One approach considers environments where the firm is transferring primarily knowledge-based assets. An important assumption...

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FDI and the skill premium in a North-South global economy

Ghosh, Subhadip - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 17 (2008) 2, pp. 181-195

The effect of FDI from North to South countries on the skill premium of both groups of countries is examined. The lower wage of unskilled labor in the South induces the Northern firms to shift the unskilled labor intensive production processes in the South. FDI occurs in an unskilled labor...

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The “Continuous Collaborators” in Italy. Hybrids between Employment and Self-employment?

Muehlberger, Ulrike; Pasqua, Silvia - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

Over the last decade Italy has seen a strong increase in the number of workers on the border between self-employment and employment. Depending on the data source the “parasubordinati”, i.e. workers with a “contract of continuous collaboration” (collaborators) represented between 1.8%...

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wiiw Database on Foreign Direct Investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe: Shift to the East

Hunya, Gábor; Schwarzhappel, Monika - Wiener Institut für Internationale …

The FDI inflow to Central, East and Southeast Europe reached a new high in 2006, EUR 77 billion, 30% more than in the previous year. But the FDI inflow and its growth were unevenly distributed. The inflow was stagnating in the NMS-5 but increasing in Southeast Europe and the European CIS. This...

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wiiw Database on Foreign Direct Investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe, 2008: Decline to Follow Uneven FDI Inflow Growth

Hunya, Gábor; Schwarzhappel, Monika - Wiener Institut für Internationale …

FDI inflows reached a new high in 2007 in the CEEC region as a whole. Within the region, the shift of new investments to the East continued: a decline or at best stagnation was recorded in the NMS, modest growth in Southeast Europe, and a boom in the CIS. For the first time, the four European...

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Unternehmenspolitik, Managerkontrolle und Personalabbau in Deutschland : theoretische Ansätze und empirische Analyse mit Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels (Corporate policy, manager control and staff reduction in Germany : theoretical approaches and empirical analysis using data from the IAB establishment panel)

Beckmann, Michael - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 33 (2000) 4, pp. 594-608

significant connection can be proven between organisational changes and staff cuts in a firm. Secondly both outsourcing and …

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Factors Affecting Outsourcing for Information Technology Services in Rural Hospitals: Theory and Evidence

Whitacre, Brian E.; Fannin, James Matthew; Barnes, James N. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2008

choosing between performing this service in-house and outsourcing to a technology firm in the health industry. This paper … that treat more severe injuries positively impact the probability of outsourcing for IT services. …

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