Outsourcing, Market Structure and Elections

Cost Structure, Market Structure and Outsourcing

A partial equilibrium model is developed to investigate the interplay of production technology and the difference of market structure between upstream and downstream markets on firms’ outsourcing choice. It is found that whether outsourcing or vertical integration emerges as the optimal organizational structure depends not only on the cost structure of competing upstream firms, but also on the ...

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market

Labor market pooling , outsourcing and labor contracts

Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from Chamberlinian externalities. Firms may also protect ...

Collective Outsourcing to Market (Com): A Market-Based Framework for Information Supply Chain Outsourcing

Fang Fang College of Business Administration California State University at San Marcos [email protected] Zhiling Guo Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) [email protected] Andrew B. Whinston McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin [email protected] This paper discusses the importance of and a solution to separating the informat...

Outsourcing with Long Term Contracts: Capital Structure and Product Market Competition Effects

This paper analyzes how capital structure and product market competition affect the firms’ choice between outsourcing with long term contracts and outsourcing to the spot market. When outsourcing to the spot market firms are exposed to price uncertainty, whereas a long term contract allows them to set in advance the outsourcing price. We show that, to the extent that leverage and uncertainty ca...