resource availability and resource needs, influence HR outsourcing. The study examines the subject of human resource (HR …) outsourcing. Design/methodology/approach – The potential influence of firms' characteristics on HR outsourcing is analysed … size and previous reorganization activities significantly raise the probability of an HR outsourcing. In contrast, there is …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; Productivity …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … approach takes possible complementarities between IT outsourcing and production input factors into account and further allows … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …