) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

This paper is a dynamic extension of the well-known theory of trade in tasks. In my model, a firm's offshoring decision … reduces the level of offshoring compared to a static optimization and that adjustment of offshoring volume with respect to … changes in offshoring costs or labor endowment is characterized by overshooting and subsequent movement toward a steady state …

between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

Deutschland: Auch in Deutschland lässt sich Geld verdienen! -- Outsourcing und Offshoring als strategische Handlungsalternativen … -- Effekte des In- und Outsourcing in einem systemdynamischen Modell strategischer Fähigkeiten -- Offshoring: Analyse der … Produktionsverlagerungen und Outsourcing begleitet. In der Praxis überdeckte jedoch der starke Kostenbezug bei Offshoring- und Outsourcing …

reorganize to more decentralized management improving competitiveness of offshoring firms. We show further that offshoring of … level of decentralization and CEO wages of offshoring firms. In sufficiently open economies, however, managerial offshoring …