Siemens Information Systems Ltd. (SISL) ist das Systemund Softwarehaus von Siemens in Indien mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Software Offshore Development. Um sicherzustellen, dass die Herausforderungen beim Aufbau eines Offshore Development Centers gemeistert werden, wurde bei SISL eine systematische Vorgehensweise entwickelt, die zusammen mit den Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren beschrieben wi...

This paper examines the effect of offshoring in a model of North-South trade when households have non-homothetic preferences of the Matsuyama (2000) type. We presents a platform from which to examine issues of trade and development in the presence of offshoring. The assumption of homotheticity is prevalent throughout the offshoring literature. We find that in equilibrium the South will consume ...

Executive Summary Businesses engaging in outsourcing of professional service activities to organizations in foreign countries have focused primarily on the issues of cost and the number of jobs affected. However, significant transfers of intangibles occur in many service-based offshoring arrangement as well. Some of these intangibles are considered intellectual property (IP). The transfer of IP...

Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both? This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001...

This paper examines the link between offshoring and technical change measured by patent total factor productivity in order to sort out causality. It applies instrumental variable matching approaches on a panel of more than 7000 Swedish manufacturing firms over period 2001–2014, identify offshoring-related intermediate imports United Nations Broad Economic Categories system. Accounting for self-...

How does globalization affect politics? One of the most controversial aspects is offshoring, when manufacturing operations and business functions move abroad. Although voters generally dislike it remains unclear how moving jobs abroad impacts democratic elections. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, author finds that incumbent government parties lose more votes in municipalit...

This article examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) shape institutional conditions in emerging economies to secure access to high-skilled, yet lower-cost science and engineering talent. Based on two in-depth case studies of engineering offshoring projects of German automotive suppliers in Romania and China we analyze how MNCs engage in ‘active embedding’ by aligning local institutional ...