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The Make-or-Buy Decision in ICT Services: Empirical Evidence from Luxembourg

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In the context of economic globalization, firms need to increase their adaptability and flexibility to assure competitiveness in their market. To manage their activities effectively, firms are resorting increasingly to outsourcing and/or offshoring of activities both for the manufacture of products and for the inputs included in the production process. Outsourcing has been called ‘one of the greatest organizational and industry structure shifts of the century’ with the potential to transform the way firms organize their activities (Drucker, 1998).

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Martin, L. (2012). The Make-or-Buy Decision in ICT Services: Empirical Evidence from Luxembourg. In: Allegrezza, S., Dubrocard, A. (eds) Internet Econometrics. Applied Econometrics Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230364226_11

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