Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing

Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in Irish Manufacturing

The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to productivity is tested for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Theory suggests that as firms outsource more ‘non-core’ activities to specialized providers, productivity due to the firm benefiting from cheaper or higher-quality inputs and from reallocation of resources towards...

DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

The purpose of this research is to present an alternative approach for measuring productivity in manufacturing companies. To achieve the research objective, an in depth investigation on the existing productivity measurement and analysis practices of a case manufacturing company has been carried out through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The investigation result has shown that the...

Measurement of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing

The indexes of multifactor productivity for two-digit manufacturing sectors prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for sectors in manufacturing have been revised and extended to cover the 1949–92 period. These indexes, also called the “KLEMS” multifactor measures, compare changes in output to changes in a composite of all the inputs used in production—capital, labor, energy inputs, nonenerg...

The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring

Offshore Outsourcing and Productivity

Offshoring of services, either to a foreign affiliate or an external overseas supplier, and its effects on developed economies is at the heart of policy discussion. Whilst macro evidence and case studies are not lacking, few studies have used microeconomic data to analyse this issue and they have only looked at the manufacturing sector. This study is the first to use establishment level data fo...