outsourcing for a variety of reasons. Cost savings are the major driving force behind the outsourcing of production function …This study analyses the motives and results of outsourcing. According to the results, companies have pursued …. Increased flexibility, focusing and additional capacity are other important motives. In most cases, R&D outsourcing is driven by …

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …

the automatic control machine tool industry in Japan - based on a 1982 sample survey of 40 industrial enterprises …, discusses research and development trends, demand, production, subcontracting, competition, etc.; investigates the impact of … electronics Innovation on small scale industry, the international division of labour and on developing countries. Bibliography and …

This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 23, 000 …&D jobs have been relocated from Finland. Outsourcing is most commonly observed in ser-vice-related functions, but also … manufacturing and R&D tasks have been outsourced. The main drivers of production outsourcings have been cost savings, capacity and …

services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …