New Outsourcing, Demand Uncertainty and Labor Usage
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- 作者：Sasan Bakhtiari ; Robert Breunig
- 关键词：Business strategy ; Demand uncertainty ; Labor adjustment ; Outsourcing
- 刊名：Review of Industrial Organization
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：50
- 期：1
- 页码：69-90
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- 刊物类别：Business and Economics
- 刊物主题：Industrial Organization; Microeconomics;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1573-7160
- 卷排序：50
文摘
We examine the decisions by small and medium-sized Australian firms to undertake new outsourcing. We hypothesize that new outsourcing may be related to demand uncertainty. We test this hypothesis at the firm level, making use of unique longitudinal data on Australian manufacturing. We find an asymmetric relationship between new outsourcing and demand uncertainty. For the larger firms in our sample, positive demand shocks are related to more new outsourcing. For all firms, negative demand shocks are related to less new outsourcing. New outsourcing appears to be related to demand uncertainty and to the firm’s overall approach to labor utilization.