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 …

domestic productivity distribution. Large manufacturing multinationals have increased their productivity by participating …'s competitiveness. The paper does so by using the International Trade Centre's competitiveness index, for small, medium-sized and large … of participation by 2.5% reduces the competitiveness gap between small and large firms by 1.25%. In addition, the …