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Fine slicing of the value chain and offshoring of essential activities: empirical evidence from European multinationals

open access: yesJournal of Business Economics and Management, 2014
The offshoring of more advanced activities is increasing and a debate about the limits of offshoring has emerged. Companies are fine-slicing their value chains, and moving beyond the offshoring of peripheral and non-core activities to the offshoring of ...
Esmeralda Linares-Navarro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key Location Factors and the Evolution of Motives for Business Service Offshoring to Poland [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Management, 2018
Aim/purpose - The aim of the research is to study key location factors and changes in motives for business service offshoring. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical research was conducted on a sample of 200 managers employed in business service ...
Radosław Malik
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International Offshoring, Local Effects: an Inquiry on Italian Firms

open access: yesSymphonya, 2013
Does offshoring affect industrial productivity at local level? In order to reply to this question a set of equation have been estimated on a panel of Italian provinces in the period 1999-2010, using DOLS (Dynamic Ordinary Least Square) methodology for ...
Giancarlo Corò   +2 more
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Offshoring as potential financial instrument in international relations [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Pogledi, 2017
This article problematize the conflict of two dimensions of offshoring. On the one hand, jobs and capital are moving through offshore entities in the states out of control of onshore _tates, and on the other hand, some countries accept this modality of ...
Stevanović Miroslav, Đurđević Dragan
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The Scale and Characteristics of Services Offshoring in the Visegrád Countries

open access: yesEntrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2014
The paper aims to outline the current position of V4’s as destinations for services offshoring activities, analyse the extent and patterns of service exports and service-based FDI, and to determine their potential as offshoring locations.
Magdalena Myszkowska
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of Service Offshoring on Productivity and Employment: Evidence from Korea

open access: yesEast Asian Economic Review, 2009
This paper estimates the effects of service offshoring on productivity and employment in Korean manufacturing industries during the period from 1995 to 2005. It applies a dynamic panel approach to address the potential endogeneity problem.
Soonchan Park
doaj   +1 more source

Distributed Agile Patterns-Using Agile Practices to Solve Offshore Development Issues

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
As offshoring is becoming mainstream, companies are moving towards using agile methods. Offshoring has many advantages such as reduced development cost, proximity to market and round the clock development, it has created new challenges for the ...
Maryam Kausar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Offshoring Can Affect the Industries’ Skill Composition

open access: yesEconomies, 2015
While most of the offshoring literature focuses on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the necessary attention. This paper investigates the effects on the industries’ skill ratio.
Daniel Horgos, Lucia Tajoli
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Multi-product offshoring [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2017
In this paper, we incorporate offshoring of labor-intensive goods in a model with multi-product firms, and explore its implications in partial and general oligopolistic equilibrium. We identify important aspects of this phenomenon and argue that improvements in offshoring opportunities can affect the geographic organization of a firm and its product ...
Carsten Eckel, Michael Irlacher
openaire   +3 more sources

Accounting Offshoring: The role of Emotional Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yesContabilitate şi Informatică de Gestiune, 2019
Research Question: The primary purposes of this paper are to compare the emotional intelligence levels of Americans and Indians and explore the potential impacts of these differences in the offshoring relationships.
Gaurav Gupta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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