Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market ...phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and household - that mold the power asymmetries that influence the distribution of the gains from globalization. In this book, William Milberg and Deborah Winkler propose an institutional theory of trade and development starting with the growth of global value chains - international networks of production that have restructured the global economy and its governance over the past twenty-five years. They find that offshoring leads to greater economic insecurity in industrialized countries that lack institutions supporting workers. They also find that offshoring allows firms to reduce domestic investment and focus on finance and short-run stock movements.
Straipsnyje apžvelgiama teisinė ir ekonominė veiklos rangos prigimtis, apibūdinami jos bruožai ir išgryninami atskirų veiklos rangos tipų identifikavimo kriterijai. Taip pat darbe apžvelgiami įvairių ...tyrėjų siūlyti veiklos rangos apibūdinimo metodai ir pateikiamas naujas pasiūlymas. Siūloma interpretuoti veiklos rangą valstybės pramoniniam strateginiam planavimui vystant šalies ūkį, inovacijų skatinimui ir naujausios technologinės pažangos diegimui vykdant tarptautinių korporacijų pateikiamus užsakymus, tolesnę produkcijos, Ukrainoje priskiriamos naujai pramoninei veiklai, plėtrą. Pateikiami siūlymai diegti naują ekonominį-teisinį priemonių derinį siekiant paskatinti veiklos rangą ir užsienio inovacijų, tarp jų viešojo ir privataus sektorių bendradarbiavimo, diegimą, muitų lengvatų teikimą, laisvos prekybos zonų veiklą apibrėžiančių įstatymų formavimą ir taikymą.
Outsourcing partnership management (OPM) is challenging for knowledge intensive outsourcing due to factors like task complexity and intrinsic uncertainty associated with these projects, dependence on ...external knowledge, and intricacies of knowledge transfer and integration. Through a structured approach, the present study aims to identify progress in OPM research and any existing gap(s). Subsequently, the aim is to present a holistic OPM context empirically for knowledge intensive outsourcing encompassing both "static" and "dynamic" perspectives of OPM. In this endeavour, a systematic review is employed to develop an integrating framework within the OPM literature and identify key gaps in academic research. Next, based on the gap identified in relation to a comprehensive understanding of the "static" perspective of OPM, this study contributes to a thorough understanding of the role of reintegration in knowledge intensive outsourcing. Contextualised within the Drug Discovery programmes in the pharma sector, a theoretical model for reintegration is developed to establish that for ensuring outsourcing success, reintegration partially mediates the relationship between partnership governance and outsourcing performance. Finally, this study extends the scope of OPM beyond a single contract cycle and probes the nuances of contract renewal which contributes to the understanding of the "dynamic" OPM perspective. In this context, a pivotal role of trust has been established where trust mediates the relationship between outsourcing performance and contract renewal. The all-encompassing "static" and "dynamic" perspectives of OPM make an important contribution to the understanding of what constitutes "real value" to the client in knowledge intensive outsourcing. While the utilisation of acquired knowledge is critical for achieving project specific goals in near term in a single contract cycle (i.e., the "static" perspective), for the longevity of the relationship a trusting relationship with the vendor is found to be more important for a contract renewal decision (i.e., the "dynamic" perspective).
Los modelos de producción han cambiado de una internalización de las actividades, a modelos basados en la subcontratación o la externalización, donde las empresas contratan lo que comúnmente se ...conoce como "el core" del negocio. La externalización o la subcontratación son por lo general figuras positivas para lograr la eficiencia del mercado, sin embargo, también pueden ser un vehículo que conlleva a la ausencia de estándares mínimos de protección laboral.
Logistics outsourcing has been widely adopted by firms as a means to reduce costs and increase flexibility. To ensure these expected outcomes, logistics outsourcing processes must be managed with ...appropriate governance mechanisms, but their effects on firm performance have hitherto been inconclusive in the literature due to overlooking of operational mechanisms. This study aims to shed light on the effects of the outsourcing management process (OMP), which is an operational mechanism, on the following two types of logistics service outsourcing: basic outsourcing and advanced outsourcing. By drawing upon resource-based views, we validated a proposed model based on survey data collected from 250 subsidies of publicly listed manufacturers in China. The results revealed that OMP affects the effectiveness of the two types of logistics outsourcing differently. While basic logistics outsourcing affects cost and delivery directly, advanced logistics outsourcing influences the performances via interaction with OMP. This study is the first to report this relationship. This study further makes a contribution by showing the conditional utility of OMP and its service-dependent nature, which has usually been ignored in the literature.
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