Results 11 to 20 of about 815 (255)
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]
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
doaj +1 more source
International Offshoring, Local Effects: an Inquiry on Italian Firms
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
doaj +3 more sources
Offshoring as potential financial instrument in international relations [PDF]
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
doaj +1 more source
The Scale and Characteristics of Services Offshoring in the Visegrád Countries
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
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
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
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
doaj +1 more source
Multi-product offshoring [PDF]
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]
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

