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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/4260| Title: | Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation |
| Keywords: | O31 F14 ddc:330 international services outsourcing innovation R&D Unternehmensdienstleistung Outsourcing Offshoring Rentabilität Innovation Industrielle Forschung Irland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
| Description: | We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the magnitude is smaller. This makes intuitive sense, as international outsourcing allows more scope for exploiting international factor price differentials, therefore giving the establishment higher profits and more scope to restructure production activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted by theory, while this is not true for domestic sourcing. The results are robust to various specifications and an instrumental variables analysis. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/4260 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/4260 ppn:561628165 ppn:561628165 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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