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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Offshoring"”.
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Knowledge Transfer in IS Offshoring
Information Systems (IS) offshoring is the transfer of IS services to a service provider outside the service consumer’s home country. The increasing amount of IS offshoring publications over the last years confirm the increasing interest in this topic. Furthermore, the transfer of knowledge from …
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Outsourcing, offshoring and the US office market
… and scholars over potential job losses caused by offshoring. The real estate industry has been grappling to understanding the implications of these numbers, as some have speculated that the projected job losses seem to translate into significantly lower demand for US office space. Professional …
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Offshoring de servicios técnicos de ingeniería: el caso español
… of them set-up onshoring, outsourcing and/or offshoring initiatives; which over time could evolve towards offshoring outsourcing or insourcing centres. However, almost all of these initiatives disappeared. This investigation includes a 360º research study (including contracting party supplier …
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The outsourcing and offshoring competitive landscape and its uncertainties
The outsourcing and offshoring competitive landscape is rapidly and constantly evolving, presenting new challenges and opportunities for providers and customers alike. Outsourcing providers are pressured to increase the value delivered to clients. American providers are rushing offshore in an …
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IT offshoring : market analysis and essential framework for success
IT offshoring is the practice of acquiring Information Technology capabilities, usually from an outsourcing service, but also through company-owned, dedicated centers, in remote lower-cost locations. The goal of this thesis is to develop a strategic framework to help companies succeed in the …
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Labor arbitrage : impact of offshoring in the U.S. labor market
The rapid growth of offshoring has ignited a contentious debate over its impact on the US labor market. Between 1983 and 2002, the United States economy lost 6 million jobs in manufacturing and income inequality increased sharply [Ebenstein, 2011]. Today due to the falling costs of transportation, …
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El balanced scorecard aplicado a empresas que hacen IT offshoring en Argentina.
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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From Offshoring to Reshoring: A Conceptual Framework for Manufacturing Location Decisions in a Slow-Steam World
… Reshoring describes the reversal of a previous offshoring decision, whereby a firm either relocated its own manufacturing operations overseas or outsourced a significant portion of production to offshore suppliers. With looming uncertainty in global consumer demand and diminishing returns in …
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Offshoring is not the panacea : ensuring sustainable employment in the US manufacturing industry by leveraging demand proximity
… thesis investigates the theme of "manufacturing offshoring" that became a political issue during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. As during previous elections, employment became a key focus on the home front. Whereas the 1992 presidential election was marked by the debate around the loss of …
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Essays on Firms' Behavior in International Trade with Vertical Specialization
… economic phenomena -- processing trade and offshoring -- using diverse datasets and theory. In Chapter 1, a joint work with Mi Dai and Miaojie Yu from Peking University, we solve the documented puzzle that exporters in China are less productive than non-exporters in the labor intensive …
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Asylum, Security, Neoliberalism and the Development of the Rwanda Plan
… public/private domestic migration management to offshoring through its costly Rwanda Plan? This thesis contributes to critical immigration literature by exploring theoretical perspectives from security and neoliberalism studies as originally emphasized in literature on the Australian Pacific …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… first and second chapter examine Korean firms' offshoring strategies and the impact of these offshoring activities on firm-level employment in Korea. In the third chapter, the recent pattern of wage inequality is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation …
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Brokering Culture and Labor: An Anthropological Analysis of IT Offshore Labor between Japan and India
… involved in Indian/Japanese software offshoring illuminates an array of difficulties that problematize the "seamlessness" of this endeavor. This dissertation investigated the complex social world of offshoring by focusing on analyzing India-Japan software offshoring, and the study …
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Work distribution in global product development organizations
… has increased the interest of firms in offshoring their engineering and product development activities. However, there exist challenges in coordinating and collaborating across time zones, cultures, geographical locations, and organizations. These challenges are magnified in the case of …
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Essays into Firms, Innovation and Productivity
… activities or international activities such as offshoring and exporting. The PhD dissertation consists of three chapters that use the Survey of Business Activities annually provided by the Statistics Korea to gain insights into the link between such activities and firm performances such as …
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ON THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON HOST COUNTRIES
… understand the relation between immigration and offshoring when asymmetric information about foreing born workers is assumed (chapter 4). So, the rest of the thesis is composed follows: Chapter 2, "The economic impact of migration on host countries: a survey", provides a survey of the literature …
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Essays on Technology and Trade
… among countries and sectors more exposed to offshoring. Using a quantitative trade model incorporating automation and offshoring, I confirm that the observed changes in automation can account for the evolution of comparative advantage while observed changes in offshoring cannot. I conclude by …
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Essays in international migration
… immigration during 1995-2007 affected service offshoring in US industries. Using the H-1B microdata, I document a large increase in the employment of skilled immigrants in tradeable service sectors during 1995-2007. Because skilled immigration may be endogenous to offshoring, I develop …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
… country ("outsourcing") and between countries ("offshoring"). We show that, while differentials in sectoral task prices decrease in response to outsourcing, they increase in response to offshoring. The heterogeneity in the composition of workers' task endowments controls responses in between- and …
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