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Building a successful partnership in higher education institutions
Chou, David C. - In: International journal of information systems and change … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 84-97
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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World
den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2007
outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268174
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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274459
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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Liao, Christine Marie; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2007
integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in "outsourcing" of these same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429868
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Economic insecurity in the new wave of globalization : offshoring and the labor share under varieties of capitalism
Milberg, William S.; Winkler, Deborah - In: International review of applied economics 24 (2010) 3, pp. 285-308
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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532546
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Supply chains, production networks and the employment relationship
Wright, Chris F.; Kaine, Sarah - In: The journal of industrial relations : the journal of … 57 (2015) 4, pp. 483-501
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336578
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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530520