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IT outsourcing - A source of innovation? Microeconometric evidence for Germany

Do firms sourcing out IT services redirect their resources to innovation activity? We attempt to answer this question by analysing a firm-level data set comprising 1453 firms from the German manufacturing and services sectors. Using different measures of IT outsourcing (ITO), the econometric estimations reveal a significant and U-shaped relationship between ITO and product innovation activity of manufacturing firms, and a significant and hump-shaped relationship between ITO and process innovation activity of services firms. A propensity score matching analysis takes account of reverse causality; the results underpin the relevance of ITO for services firms' realisation of process innovation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 12-088

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Organization of Production
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Thema
IT outsourcing
product innovation
process innovation
firm-level data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bertschek. Irene
Erdsiek, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bertschek. Irene
  • Erdsiek, Daniel
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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