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

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. 05/22

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Abramovsky, Laura ; Griffith, Rachel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• (where): London
• (when): 2005

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2005.0522
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71532
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET