Outsourcing and Firm Performance – A Comparative Study of Swiss and Greek Firms

KOF Working Papers / KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, No. 286

54 Pages Posted: 24 Aug 2011

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Spyros Arvanitis

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) - Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF)

Euripidis N. Loukis

University of the Aegean

Date Written: August 24, 2011

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing (a) the factors determining the firms’ propensity to outsource various processes (b) the impact of outsourcing on firms’ innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative setting is the new element this study adds to existing empirical literature. Relocation to external providers is related to (parts of) the production process of final products and intermediate products as well as Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services.

Keywords: outsourcing, product innovation, process innovation, average labour productivity

JEL Classification: L24, O31

Suggested Citation

Arvanitis, Spyros and Loukis, Euripidis N., Outsourcing and Firm Performance – A Comparative Study of Swiss and Greek Firms (August 24, 2011). KOF Working Papers / KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, No. 286, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1916022 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916022

Spyros Arvanitis (Contact Author)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) - Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF) ( email )

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Euripidis N. Loukis

University of the Aegean ( email )

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