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Les effets de productivité de la sous‐traitance internationale: résultats à partir de données au niveau des établissements.
Author(s) -
Görg Holger,
Hanley Aoife,
Strobl Eric
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00481.x
Subject(s) - outsourcing , multinational corporation , productivity , business , knowledge process outsourcing , industrial organization , international trade , economics , marketing , finance , macroeconomics
. We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant‐level data for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a multinational. Our results show robust evidence for positive effects from outsourcing of services inputs for exporters, either domestic or foreign owned. By contrast, we find no statistically significant evidence of an impact of international outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market.