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EnglishABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on the labor productivity of firms in a specific local production system.A number of hypotheses about the location-specific effects of outsourcing are put forward and tested on a sample of firms in the province of Reggio Emilia (within the Emilia-Romagna region, in North-East Italy). The relationship between outsourcing and productivity turns out positive only if considering the externalization of high value-added activities. On the contrary, it is negative in the case of low value-added activities. This occurs to a greater extent for firms in mature industrial districts, whose socio-economic conditions however do not arrive to magnify the productivity premium of externalizing high value-added ones. The technological innovativeness of the firms instead helps with that, pointing to a developmental use of outsourcing in the area.
| Titolo: | Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in a Specific Local Production System: Evidence from Reggio Emilia (Italy) |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on the labor productivity of firms in a specific local production system.A number of hypotheses about the location-specific effects of outsourcing are put forward and tested on a sample of firms in the province of Reggio Emilia (within the Emilia-Romagna region, in North-East Italy). The relationship between outsourcing and productivity turns out positive only if considering the externalization of high value-added activities. On the contrary, it is negative in the case of low value-added activities. This occurs to a greater extent for firms in mature industrial districts, whose socio-economic conditions however do not arrive to magnify the productivity premium of externalizing high value-added ones. The technological innovativeness of the firms instead helps with that, pointing to a developmental use of outsourcing in the area. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11564/702631 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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