Selecting the governance mode when offshoring knowledge-intensive activities

Governance Challenges in Business Process Offshoring: the Base))) Solution

Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents specialize in problem solving. We first analyze the properties of the competitive equilibrium of the mode...

Home-Host Country Distance and Governance Choices in Service Offshoring

This paper studies the effect of home-host country distance on the choice of governance mode in the offshoring of services. Using a Transaction Cost Economics approach, we look at the comparative costs of the hierarchical and contractual models to show that different dimensions of distance (geographic, cultural and institutional), because they generate different types of uncertainties, impact o...

Domestic Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy∗

During past decades, substantial skill and occupation relocation took place across U.S. cities: big cities attract more skilled workers and specialize more in cognitiveintensive occupations. Motivated by the empirical literature on improvement in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the increasing domestic production fragmentation—or domestic offshoring—we develop a spatial equil...

Pay Attention When Selecting Features

In this paper, we propose a new approach for landmark selection for simultaneous robot localization and mapping based on visual sensors (VSLAM): a biologically motivated attention system finds regions of interest with high information content, and at these regions, Harris corners are detected. This combines the advantages of the ROIs (reducing complexity, enabling good redetactability of region...