Purpose - The paper aims to explore the application of outsourcing in hotel enterprises in the ubrovnik-Neretva County …. The purpose of the paper is to explore the correlation between outsourcing and innovativeness of hotel companies. Design …/methodology/approach - The hypothesis is that an increase in the level of outsourcing is related to a higher degree of innovation of hotel …

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing … industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment …'s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …