离岸外包能提高生产率吗?德国中小企业和大企业的比较

IF 0.9 Q3 ECONOMICS
Fabian Kreutzer, Wolfram Berger
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摘要

我们使用德国工厂层面的证据来探索中小企业(SME)离岸外包对生产率的影响,并将其与大型公司样本的结果进行比较。中小企业通常比大公司面临更严格的资源限制,因此更难获得与离岸外包相关的潜在生产力收益。我们为中小企业集团找到证据,证明离岸商业活动往往是更具生产力的企业之一。然而,与非离岸工厂相比,离岸工厂失去了这种优势。最初的生产率差距被逆转了,离岸工厂的生产率甚至在离岸工厂实际发生几年后仍落后。对于大公司来说,这两种观察结果都无法得到证实。
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Does offshoring boost productivity? A comparison of SMEs and large firms for Germany
We use plant-level evidence for Germany to explore the productivity effects of offshoring of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and compare them to those derived for a sample of large companies. SMEs usually face tighter resource constraints than larger companies, thus making it harder for them to reap the potential productivity gains associated with offshoring. We find evidence for the group of SMEs that plants that offshore business activities tend to be among the more productive ones, ex ante. However, offshoring plants lose this edge over their non-offshoring counterparts. The initial productivity gap is reversed, and the productivity of offshoring plants lags behind even several years after offshoring has actually taken place. Neither observation can be confirmed for large companies.
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期刊介绍: Economics and Business Letters is an open access journal that publishes both theoretical and empirical quality original papers in all economics and business fields. In addition, relevant discussions on current policy issues will be considered for the Policy Watch section. As general strategy of EBL, the journal will launch calls for papers for special issues on topics of interest, generally with invited guest editors. The maximum length of the letters is limited to 2,500 words.
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