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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: How important is ICT?

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving activity outside the firm and of carrying out at greater geographic distance. We find that more technology intensive firms purchase a greater amount of services on the market and purchase more offshore than less technologically intensive firms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. 05/22

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Theory
Multinational Firms; International Business
Organization of Production
Thema
Outsourcing
o¤shoring
ICT
business services
Outsourcing
Informationstechnik
Auslandsverlagerung

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Abramovsky, Laura
Griffith, Rachel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2005

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2005.0522
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Abramovsky, Laura
  • Griffith, Rachel
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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