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Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data
The Economic and Social Review
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Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data
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| Creator |
Görg, Holger
Hanley, Aoife Ott, Ingrid |
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outsourcing; internet; Ireland
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| Description |
We analyse the link between internet use and foreign sourcing of services and materials inputs. In our empirical analysis using firm level data for Ireland we find, among firms that a priori all purchase inputs abroad, that those who commenced outsourcing from suppliers over the internet (“Adopters”) experience significantly higher growth rates of services offshoring. This result shows in a variety of econometric methods (OLS, Propensity Scoring (Kernel, Nearest Neighbour and Caliper Matching)). Adopting the internet for outsourcing induced an increase in the share of foreign services by 3.2-4.0 per cent.
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The Economic and Social Review
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2015-09-29
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://www.esr.ie/article/view/398
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| Source |
The Economic and Social Review; Vol 46, No 3, Autumn (2015); 367-387
0012-9984 |
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eng
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http://www.esr.ie/article/view/398/114
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Copyright (c) 2015 The Economic and Social Review
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