contrast to some recent studies, we show that the importance of manufacturing for the world economy has not declined during the … manufacturing underestimates the importance of manufacturing. Many former in-house activities of manufacturing are nowadays … countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring …

production. While International Outsourcing attracted huge attention within the last decade, the sector bias of International … Outsourcing still provides several gaps for theoretical as well as empirical research. This theses tries to contribute to fill … some of these gaps. The first manuscript empirically investigates measurement differences of International Outsourcing and …