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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation

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dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.creator Hanley, Aoife
dc.date 2008
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:08:19Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:08:19Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/4260
dc.identifier ppn:561628165
dc.identifier ppn:561628165
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/4260
dc.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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1417
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject O31
dc.subject F14
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject international services outsourcing
dc.subject innovation
dc.subject R&D
dc.subject Unternehmensdienstleistung
dc.subject Outsourcing
dc.subject Offshoring
dc.subject Rentabilität
dc.subject Innovation
dc.subject Industrielle Forschung
dc.subject Irland
dc.title Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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