Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review

By Karsten Olsen. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both? (2009, background): “Given the large degree of heterogeneity in firm behaviour with respect to outsourcing ( Olsen 2006, p. 15 ) the lack of empirical studies using longitudinal data at the enterprise level to investigate the causes and the effects of offshoring on various dimensions of firm performance hinders an under”
• A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring: The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Talent (2008, background): “…impacts on domestic economy Engardio et al. (2003), Garner (2006), Global Insight (2004), Lieberman (2004), Mankiw & Swagel (2006), Olsen (2006), van Ark et al. (2006) Policy-oriented reports Impact of service offshoring on prices, productivity, exports, wages (FDI, annual…”
• Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions (2009, background): “…added (total turnover minus total inputs of purchased parts, materials, operations and services) per employee", and a higher import quota might enable a company to source at least commodities to a lower price level from low-wage countries (e.g. Barba Navaretti and Venables, 2004; Olsen, 2006).”
• DOES OFFSHORING PAY? FIRM‐LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN (2010, unknown): “See Appendix A for more details on Buettner's (2003) method.”
• Global Value Chains and the Productivity of Canadian Manufacturing Firms (2014, background): “See Olsen (2006) for a survey of the offshoring literature.”
• Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata (2006, unknown): “As highlighted by Olsen (2006), it is important to distinguish “offshoring” from “outsourcing” and “relocation” (see table 1).”
• Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities (2012, background): “Production relocation as “the move of a manufacturing process from one place to another” (Mucchielli and Saucier, 1997) can be defined in terms of spatial and ownership boundaries (Dossani and Kenney, 2003; Jahns et al., 2006; Olsen, 2006).”