Web Switching and International Outsourcing : A matching approach

Konferenzbeitrag

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to web-based procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing the dovetailing of operations between two neither culturally nor geographically proximate, independent firms. Using a 3-year panel, we find positive effects of switching to internet procurement and offshoring inputs and we show that the effect is stronger for services offshored than for materials offshoring.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Offshoring: Causes and Consequences ; No. F3-V2

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Firm Organization and Market Structure ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Offshoring ; heterogeneous inputs ; uncertainty ; price ; transportation costs

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hanley, Aoife ; Ott, Ingrid
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Verein für Socialpolitik
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37177