This paper studies the extent and variation in production cost pass-through for U.S. outsourcing imports. Data from 4,676 products imported through the U.S. overseas assembly program (OAP) show that outsourcing imports were characterized by incomplete pass-through of production and trade costs to import prices. Notably, passthrough was higher for products assembled in high education countries w...

Business value from outsourcing is increasingly dependent on how well the relationship between the client and its service provider(s) is managed. This paper analyses the factors that affect outsourcing success in terms of project success, knowledge transfer and sustainability. Data were collected from six businesses in Pakistan representing three outsourcing relationship cases. The findings ind...

The data-driven economy has led to a significant shortage of data scientists. To address this shortage, this study explores the prospects of outsourcing data analysis tasks to freelancers available on online labor markets (OLMs) by identifying the essential factors for this endeavor. Specifically, we explore the skills required from freelancers, collect information about the skills present on m...

The paper is concerned with the impact of globalisation on individual perceived job security. Using micro-level data our preliminary results indicate that international outsourcing as well as import penetration significantly raise individual job loss fears. These effects are more pronounced for outsourcing to and import penetration from low-wage countries. Furthermore, we find some evidence tha...

The epoch of the Internet Things (IoT) has come by enabling almost everything to gather and share electronic information. Considering unreliable factors public IoT, how outsource huge amounts indispensable stream data generated nodes remote storage (RS) efficiently securely is one most challenging issues. In this article, we propose a secure lightweight outsourcing framework for IoT based on id...

This study empirically tests the applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to application development outsourcing decision making. Advances to TAM posit that perceived usefulness and ease of use mediate the effects of other variables on users’ attitudes towards a technology. The model tested in this study suggests that perceived usefulness and ease of use of outsourcing mediate the...