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Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in Irish Manufacturing

The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to productivity is tested for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Theory suggests that as firms outsource more 'non-core' activities to specialized providers, productivity due to the firm benefiting from cheaper or higher-quality inputs and from reallocation of resources towards higher value-added activities. The international outsourcing case adds another dimension in the form of input variety, quality and technological embeddedness. I test the above hypothesis using a "System GMM" estimator to control for endogeneity in the panel and allow for a lagged dependent variable to be a regressor. International outsourcing is found to lead to productivity gains, but upon closer inspection it seems that firms? international orientation and type of industry both matter.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 21

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multinational Firms; International Business
Organization of Production
Thema
Outsourcing
Productivity
Firm Structure

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
McCann, Fergal
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
FIW - Research Centre International Economics
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • McCann, Fergal
  • FIW - Research Centre International Economics

Entstanden

  • 2009

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