期刊名称:IFS Working Papers / Institute for Fiscal Studies London
电子版ISSN:1742-0415
出版年度:2005
卷号:2005
期号:1
出版社:Institute for Fiscal Studies London
摘要:This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving activity outside the firm and of carrying out at greater geographic distance. We find that more technology intensive firms purchase a greater amount of services on the market and purchase more offshore than less technologically intensive firms.